ORATION 



DELIVEKEDATTHE 

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DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, ^i tf / 



lEbctgiccn ©emetcrg, aScffitton, iHass., 



ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 26, 1866, 



EEV. FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WHITNEY. 



COKTAINING THE OTHER EXERCISES, AND KOTICES OF THE DECEASED SOLDIERS. 



BOSTON: 

S. CHISM, — FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, 

Ao. 134 Washington Street, comer of Spring Lane. 

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Harvard Place, Brighton, December 5, 18C5. 
Rev. Frederic A. Whitney. 

Dear Sir: At a meeting of the Soldiers' Monument Committee, held on Tliurs- 
day evening, tlie 30tli of November last, it was voted to extend to you an invitation 
to deliver the Oration at the dedication of the Monument. 

I have the pleasure to communicate to you the desire of the Committee, and 
hope it will be agreeable to you to accept the invitation. 

The day of the dedication is not yet appointed ; but it will not occur till late 
in the spring, or in the early part of summer. 

With great respect, 

Most truly yours, 

AUGUSTUS MASON, 

Hec'y Moil. Com., Brighton. 



Gardner Street, Brighton, December 6, 1865. 
Dr. Mason. 

Dear Sir .- Your letter of the 5th instant, inviting me, on behalf of the Soldiers' 
Monument Committee, to deliver the Oration at the dedication of the Monument, 
was received last evening. 

It gives me pleasure to accept the invitation with which you have thus hon- 
ored me. My warmest sympathies have been from the beginning with the glorious 
cause in behalf of which our devoted fellow-citizens, with their myriad comrades 
in arms, thus laid down their lives. You have done a good work in preparing this 
beautiful and massive Monument. Let us, at the lit season, gather gratefully and 
reverently about it, and testify by our words, though all unworthy, our admiration 
for their braver deeds. 

With kind regards to the Committee, and to yourself personally, I remain, 

Your obliged servant, 

FUEDERIC A. WHITNEY. 
Augustus Mason, M.D., 

Sec'y of Man, Com., Brighton. . *'■ »':f! , , 



Harvard Place, Brighton, August 1, 186C. 
Rev. Frederic A. Whitney. 

Dear Sir: At a meeting of the Monument Committee, held this evening, it 
was unanimously voted, That the thanks of the Committee be presented to the Rev. 
Frederic A. Whitney, for his very able and interesting Oration at the dedica- 
tion of the Brighton Soldiers' Monument, and that a copyof the same be requested 
for publication. 

I take great pleasure in communicating this desire of the Committee, and respect- 
fully solicit a copy of the Oration at your earliest convenience. 

Very truly yours, 

AUGUSTUS MASON, 

Sec'i/ Monument Committee. 



Gardner Street, Brighton, August 4, 1860. 
AUGU!3TUS Mason, M.D., Scc'y of the Monument Committee. 

Dear Sir .- I comply cheerfully with the recjuest of the Jlonument Committee 
to submit for publication a copy of the Oration which commemorated the occasion 
so interesting to us all. 

And grateful for the friendly terms in which you have communicated the desire 

of your associates, I remain, 

Yours cordially, 

FREDERIC A. WHITNEY. 



ORATION. 



Mr. President, Fellot^t-Citizens, and Friends : 

On Wednesday, the 7th of August, 1850, now 
sixteen years past, we were first gathered in this 
beautiful cemetery to set apart these groves— then 
vocal, as to-day, with the music of birds, and bowed 
in their luxuriant summer foliage — as a garden of 
graves. In the address of consecration which I had 
the honor to pronounce on that occasion, this day 
was not foreseen. We anticipated the ordinary exi- 
gencies of the place which was thus dedicated by 
appropriate religious rites, and named so fitly Ever- 
green Cemetery, a name most appropriate here for its 
natural, more rich even and beautiful for its spiritual 
significance. Indeed, we could not but anticipate 
the natural conditions of mortality, under which, from 
all the dear relations of life, the bodies of our dead, 
our beloved, were to be brought here. Accordingly 
the address reminded us that 

"Here shall the weary rest, 
And souls with woes oppressed 
No more shall weep; 



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And youth and age shall come, 
And beauty in her bloom, 
And manhood to the tomb, — 
Sweet bo their sleep ! " 



But who of the great throng assembled for those 
consecration services anticipated the new, the noble 
consecration which this occasion brino-s? Who of all 
— not the speaker certainly — could have dreamed 
that before eleven years were quite circled, a civil 
war, with no shadow of justification on the part of 
the aggressors, should be begun within the borders of 
our own United States, that, sustained four years on a 
scale of expenditure and of army equipment unpar- 
alleled in the history of nations, should cut down 
three hundred thousand and more of our best and 
bravest patriots? Who could have thought that 
some even who sat here with us then in the bloom 
of boyhood, or in the rich promise of youth, were so 
soon to spring to arms. at their country's call, to give 
their lives for her life, to be buried on distant battle- 
fields, or to be borne back within these gates that 
swung wide open, as with patriotic welcome, to give 
resting place to their martyred forms ? 

Pardon me a single reference more to that address 
of consecration. These words were spoken in it: 
"Within this circlina; o;rove where we are assembled 
to-day, it is contemplated that a chapel may be 
erected, in which the last services over our dead, 
grateful alike to Christian faith and to bereaved 
afiection, may be discharged. Thus happily the spot 



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on which we are gathered for these opening rites 
may be the same on which, through coming years, 
the stricken mourner, kindred and friends will bow 
in prayer, before the forms of the beloved go down 
to their kindred dust." 

The public convenience of our citizens has not yet 
called for the erection of the chapel thus proposed in 
the opening of these grounds, to be erected in the 
centre of this grove, which bears, as from the begin- 
ning, the name of Chapel Grove, and which, when 
those words were spoken, was thickly covered with 
its native forest trees. But instead thereof, what a 
structure do our eyes this day behold here ! Not 
the chapel consecrated to the successive discharge of 
the funeral services which Christian faith and affec- 
tion prompt, but the graceful shaft hewn out from 
the solid rock. Not the hallowed enclosure for the 
solemn chant and prayer and holy scripture of the 
burial, but the Monument, hallowed already — is it 
not? — with sacred memories, holy forever as it shall 
be held, in the dedication we this day make of it to 
the patriot dead, not in the name of Mars the Pagan, 
but of God our Father, the God and Father of our 
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 

We only thought to have prepared here the chapel 
where, as one by one our friends, and these our 
young soldiers with them, should die by the gentle 
hand of Providence in their homes, we might honor 
their burial, and lo, we are called thus to honor them 



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slain in battle! Alas, we knew not what the years 
had in store. Our ''tenderness," alas, how "ill-in- 
formed I" We are reminded of that touching passage 
in the Iliad of Homer, where Andromache prepares 
so kindly for the hero-husband of her love: — 

. . . . " But fair Andromache 

Nought yet had heard, nor knew by sure report 

Hector's delay without the city gates. 

She in a closet of her palace sat, 

A two-fold web weaving magnificent, 

With sprinkled flowers, inwrought, of various hues, 

And to her maidens had commandment given 

Through all her house, that, compassing with fire 

An ample tripod, they should warm a bath 

For noble nector from tlie fight returned. 

Tenderness ill-informed! She little knew 

That in the field, from such refreshment far, 

Pallas had slain him by Achilles' hand." 

We relinquish willingly this central site from its 
original purpose, for the claims of our heroes. No 
longer as Chapel Grove shall it be known, but as 
Monument Grove. The Monument, which we dedi- 
cate here to-day, reflects the highest honor upon the 
architect who designed it, upon the Committee who 
have devised and planned, and upon those who have 
executed the work. In silent, massive grandeur it 
stands, as if calmly defying the changes of centuries. 
Not silent, for how truly eloquent is that shaft ! It 
reads to us the whole history of these years of war. 
It is a speaking testimony to the noble principles on 
which so reluctantly the North accepted from the 
South the dread arbitrament of battle. It is our 



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own free-will offering. Its symbols, hewn out by 
the sculptor's hand from its own granite face, how 
appropriate, how expressive ! Behold on its front 
the shield twined with our nation's flag, — the stars 
which the sculptor's chisel has set there, on which 
God grant ! the holy stars in their heavenly pla- 
ces shall long look clown, — the shield upon which. 
Spartan-like, not with which, our soldiers so many 
came back. The shield behold there, the sublime 
monogram shall I not call it, since we see twined 
within it so gracefully those two significant letters 
which shall tell forever, as they have told hitherto, 
of our States united. The shield, once more, behold 
there, that marks the arms of our dear old State, 
whose soldiers were the very first on the field when 
the battle-cry sounded, leaving their own blood, the 
first spilled in the mighty struggle, leaving, too, their 
own dead in the streets of Baltimore, as they rushed 
to the defence of the capital, Massachusetts, ven- 
erable mother, hadst thou thought in the blood of so 
many of thy choicest sons, in this, we had deemed it, 
the noonday of Christian civilization, thus to verify 
that motto blazoned on thy shield, — 

" Ense petit pUicidam sub libertate quietem " ? 

Behold, likewise, carved so exquisitely from the 
rock, the cannon balls, which speak to the heart, 
louder even than their report to the ear, of the 
deadly contest. 



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And, towering on high, behold still further the 
noble eagle, proud symbol of our country. It rests 
on the solid ball that crowns the summit of the gran- 
ite shaft. It was shaped by the cunning skill of 
man from the hard-wrought rock, and even, as was 
the Saviour's garment, without seam or joint. As a 
sleepless sentinel behold the eagle above the names, 
cut in the enduring stone, of our fallen heroes. 

Reverently, as becomes our converse with the de- 
parted, gratefully and affectionately, as becomes the 
sentiments we all entertain for these martyred ones, 
let me speak here their engraven names, as they 
form that roll of honor: — 

PATKICK BAKKY, 

ELIAS ILVSTINGS BEXXETT, 

CHAJtLES BRYANT GUSHING, 

WILLLVM CILVUXCY DAILEY, 

JOHN FLINT DAY, 

JOEL DAVENrOliT DUDLEY, 

JOHN WAKREN FOWLE, 

GEORGE FROST, 

HKNRY HASTINGS FULLER, 

JOHN GOLDING, 

HAZAEL LEANDER GRO\"ER, 

GEORGE HENRY HOWE, JR., 

SA^^H^EL DEVENS HARIUS NILES, 

FRANCIS EDWIN PLUMMER, 

ALBERT mCE, 

RICHARD DAVID RING, 

WARREN DITTON RUSSELL, 7 

y Brothcr-s. 
FRANCIS LOWELL RUSSELL, Ji 

FRANCIS AU(JUST1XE STARIvEY, 

EDWARD LEWIS STEVENS, 

FRANKLIN WILLIAM THOMPSON, 

JOSEPH WASHINGTON WARREN, ) 

,- I-;itln.T aiul sou. 

i;eori;e Washington wAiUiEN, > 



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Twenty-three from out the whole number of some 
two hundred, natives or enlisted in our town, — why 
answer they not, comrades, to this roll-call, as, per- 
chance, ye have often heard them answer in martial 
array ? 

For the inscription on the front of the Monument, 
which, in terms so chaste and appropriate, denotes 
its purpose, we are indebted to our fellow-townsman, 
Mr. Life Baldwin, of the Committee : — 

IN 
GRATEFUL R E M E IV1 B R A N C E 

O F THE 

PATRIOTIC AND BRAVE 

Toluntttvu of Btiuljton, 

■\\' II O S E 

LIVES WERE SACE.IPICED 

IN D E F IC N C E O F 

LIBEUTY AND THE UNION, 

D U U I N G 

THE GREAT REBELLION. 

And, finally, we read, engraven on the reverse of 
the Monument, the opening lines of that fine ode of 
William Collins, England's imaginative poet of the 
seventeenth century, from whom, in life, with all his 
merits, fame turned aside, but to lay on his early 
grave a chaplet which the ages shall make greener 
and greener, — 

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest 
By all their country's wishes blest ! " 



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The Monument, in its material and in its design, 
well meets the demands of the highest art. Dura- 
bility, simplieity, expression, these qualities, here so 
marked, it has been usual, from the time of Phidias 
and Praxiteles, the most illustrious sculptors of anti- 
quity, to require in whatever works are intended to 
perpetuate the memory of past heroes or the deeds 
of an heroic age. 

Of the execution of the Monument, let me here 
speak the merited word of praise for the enterprising 
and gifted artisans of Quincy, where lie the inex- 
haustible granite beds from which it came, Messrs. 
Adam Vogel & Son, who, under the direction of the 
accomplished architect, Mr. George Frederic Mea- 
cham, have so admirably fidfdled his design. 

No site could be more favorable than this which 
the good judgment of the Committee has selected. 
Most gratefully, I am sure, do we accept from their 
hands this completed work, as it has been transmit- 
ted by Mr. Bickford, Chairman alike of the Commit- 
tee, and of the Board of Selectmen the legitimate cus- 
todians of these sacred enclosures. With all its touch- 
ing symbols, with all the tender associations which, 
like mantling ivy, and as green and fresh, already 
twine themselves about it, — as the hearts of some of 
you, my friends, will bear me witness, — we accept. 
Sir, we will guard, we will treasure this Monument. 
If embedded, on its deep foundations, in the earth 
where the dust of our dead is gently mingling, it 



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points, nevertheless, towcarcls heaven that has re- 
ceived their spirits. For, — 

"As water rises to its fountain Lead, 
However low you lay its transient bed, 
So must the spirit, from its earthly course, 
Mount to the Deity which is its source." 

The Monument shall quicken our patriotism, it shall 
sanctify the sorrow of the bereaved, it shall make 
holier this consecrated place of graves, and inspire 
us with new hopes for our country, with a livelier 
fliith for humanity, and with a surer confidence in 
the final triumphs of truth and justice and freedom. 

For consider further, friends, and you, gentlemen 
of the Committee, how natural, as well as beautiful 
and becoming, is your work in raising here this Mon- 
ument. The best instincts of our nature prompt the 
grateful service which you have so happily rendered. 
How has the surface of the earth teemed with mon- 
uments in honor of the illustrious dead so long as 
man has dwelt thereon. Far back in the primeval 
ao-es, down through successive periods of barbarism 
or refinement, amidst dimly-traced historic records, 
as in the full sunlight of modern annals, we discern 
these memorial piles. Everywhere and always, grat- 
itude and affection have planted above the grave 
some stately mausoleum, some humble stone or sol- 
emn shaft, some rude structure it may be, or some 
exquisite specimen of the sculptor's art, to mark and 
honor the burial-spot. 



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We read in the opening book of the ancient Scrip- 
ture that Jacob, as he journeyed to Bethel, buried 
Rachel his beloved wife on the way; and, in the 
words of that simple narrative written almost four 
thousand years ago, "Jacob set a pillar upon her 
grave ; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave," we read, 
" unto this day." Some have turned to this incident 
in the Bible as the oriii;in of funeral monuments. 
But whatever records may have reached our time 
respecting the earliest usages of the human race in 
this regard, the erection of some kind of monument 
is doubtless coeval with the inroads and progress of 
mortality. 

The mighty Pyramids of Egypt still stand, an 
enduring testimony to this truth. The mind is well- 
nijrh confused in contemnlatinfir the immense size, 
the wondrous combination of parts, the solemn 
chambers, the strange conformity of the lateral 
angles of these structures- with the cardinal points, 
with the rays of certain beautiful stars, and with the 
position of the heavenly bodies. Ancient and mod- 
ern discoverers agree singularly in their descriptions 
of these stupendous specimens of art, more enduring 
they have proved than any other works of man. 
From the banks of the Euphrates, from along tlie 
western margin of the valley of the Nile above 
Cairo, come to us representations of group after 
group still standing, the pyramids of Gizeh, of Aboo 
Seer, of Sakkara, of Dashoor, and of the ruins of 



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many which have fallen in these forty centuries and 
more of their history. 

The entire area of this cemetery would be just 
covered by the square base of the great pyramid of 
Egypt, which, with its exquisitely hewn and nicely 
adjusted blocks of stone, towers to the majestic 
height of four hundred and fifty feet. Herodotus 
the father of history and Pliny among the ancients, 
have furnished authentic data; the former ascribing 
its erection to Cheops, king of the Egyptians, who 
for twenty years employed the compulsory service of 
his people, one hundred thousand men at a time, in 
periods of three months each. But even this huge 
monumental pile is quite eclipsed by the great pyr- 
amid in Mexico. This stands at Cholula, a place 
now in ruins, but, when the ancient Empire of Mex- 
ico was in its glory, the capital of an independent 
state, the sanctuary and chief seat of the gods. 
Cortez, in his victorious march to Mexico in 1519, 
avenged in dreadful slaughter the treachery and 
perfidy of her people, as detailed with so much 
interest in the glowing periods of Robertson, the 
English historian, and of our own Prescott. Will 
you credit my statement, friends, when I say that 
the base of this monumental pile covers an area of 
forty-five acres, and that its truncated summit, on 
which once stood a magnificent temple containing an 
image of the patron god, embraced, as we may rely 



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on the measurement of M. de Humboldt, one entire 
acre ! 

And these were burial-phices, and these the stupen- 
dous piles that of old honored kings and conquerors, 
the famous, but not always for illustrious deeds, 
the powerful, the mighty by some renown, yet not 
always the noble in soul. Oh, more worthy far of 
our honor than many of those who slept beneath the 
pyramids are the young and tried patriots whose 
unselfish devotion we here commemorate. Egypt, 
India, Persia, Babylon, all how rich in monumental 
structures ! Would that time permitted me to lead 
you in imagination throuii-h that wide field. So 
ancient time speaks out the instincts of the human 
heart in posting by the grave some enduring memo- 
rial. And how can we enumerate the various mon- 
uments which the ampler culture of modern time 
has produced ? In every shape and form they stand. 
Copied often from the splendid mausoleums and im- 
posing sepulchral shrines of Greece and Rome, they 
have become the graceful adornment of each modern 
nation. They are reared on hillside and valley ; in 
humble burial-grounds and in solemn cathedrals ; in 
the public thoroughfares and in sequestered glens; 
in the streets of London, as that in memory of the 
late Duke of York at the end of Waterloo Place, 
and that to Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. The 
imposing Napoleon Colunm on the Place Vendome, 
Paris, must occur to many, commemorating, perhaps, 



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his most remarkable victory, and in that his devoted 
soldiers, — his triumph over the united Austrian and 
Russian armies at Austerlitz, in 1805. It surpasses 
in height what was usually accounted one of the 
seven wonders of the world, Pompey's Pillar, near 
Alexandria, in Egypt. It is higher than the famous 
Column of Trajan at Rome, erected a. d. 115, that 
holds in a golden ball on its summit the ashes of the 
Roman emperor, and it rivals the celebrated tri- 
umphal column in honor of Constantino at Constanti- 
nople. So numerous, so various in design, — in con- 
ception so grand and affecting, these monuments of 
modern time in the Old World have found, perhaps, 
their richest and most imposing expression in the 
august collections of Westminster Abbey and amidst 
the shady retreats and natural charms of Pere la 
Chaise in France. 

Nor has our own country been unmindful of the 
claims of her illustrious dead to similar honor, nor 
has affection been tardy with us in rearing monu- 
ments above the grave. The vast monumental 
earth mounds of the aborigines of our land were 
met here in an after age of civilization by the grace- 
ful shafts which rose here and there above the burial- 
places, or in memory of our fathers who fell in many 
a sanguinary conflict with the Indian tribes. 

Such was the monument erected at Sudbury, 
Mass., nearly a century and a half since, by the filial 
piety of President Wadsworth of Harvard University, 



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in memory of his father, the gallant " stout-hearted" 
Captain Samuel Wadsword of Milton, and his brave 
soldiers slain, captured, tortured by the Indians, in the 
Sudbury fight, on the 21st of April, — not 18th, as 
borne in the inscription, — 1676. A new and more 
enduring monument erected here, by the town of 
Sudbury assisted by the State, in the same commem- 
oration, was dedicated on the 23d of November, 
1852, in the able address of Governor Boutwell. 
Such is the monument erected likewise by our State 
at Haverhill, on the site of the house, and in mem- 
ory of that heroic woman, Hannah (Emerson), wife 
of Thomas Dustin, the mother of thirteen children, 
the youngest but a week old when killed by her 
captors. She suffered the cruelties of the Indians 
in her capture from her sick-bed, on the 15th of 
March, 1697. On the 31st of the same month, she 
escaped, — shall I detail the wondrous narrative ? — 
and, after a weary journey, reached her home, only 
through the awful alternative of slaying with her 
own hands and the hands of her nurse and a young 
English lad her fellow-prisoners, ten of the Indian 
family, her savage guard, as they slept with her in 
their wigwam, and bearing their scalps to Boston, 
as evidence before the General Assembly of the 
province, of her daring work. From the State she 
received a largess of fifty pounds, and bounties 
from various other sources, particularly from the 
Governor of Maryland. And let me not omit to 



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name, as one of the most expressive of this class of 
monuments, that so beautifully wrought in marble, 
dedicated at the laying of its corner-stone by the 
matchless eloquence of Everett, which commemo- 
rates at Bloody Brook, in Deerfield, Mass., in the 
lovely valley of the Connecticut, the terrible slaugh- 
ter, by seven hundred Indians, of Captain Thomas 
Lothrop, of Salem, and his choice young men, " the 
flower of Essex County," on the 18th of September, 
1675. 

The saintly " Apostle Eliot," of Roxbury, who with 
such sweet patience and holy zeal toiled to instruct 
and christianize these wild children of the forest, has 
been well commemorated in the beautiful Corinthian 
column, forty-two feet in height, erected in Forest 
Hills Cemetery. The appropriateness of the symbols 
which mark this monument is in none more mani- 
fest than in the surrounding fence. The iron pales 
of this bulustrade, supported by Doric posts of stone 
patterned after the monument, are alternately crosses 
and arrows. And John Harvard, born in the Old 
World, but adopted son of the New, who first pro- 
vided generously for the cause of learning in these 
savage wilds by founding, in 1636, the college at 
Cambridge that counts among its first graduates one 
single Indian, is commemorated not alone in the 
magnificent university which two centuries have 
reared on his foundation. An appropriate granite 
obelisk, the offering of the alumni, stands likewise to 



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his memory in the ancient burying-ground at Charles- 
town where he ministered, which was dedicated by 
Edward Everett, on the 2Gth of September, 1828, the 
one hundred and ninetieth anniversary of Harvard's 
deatli. So in various monumental designs have the 
Puritan fathers of New England been honored by 
their descendants, though at variance with their well- 
known principles, seeing that they sought not honor 
from men, but from God. The Cushman Monument, 
in memory of the eminent Puritans, ancestors of the 
Cushman ftimily, erected at Plymouth in 1858, and 
the ForefiUhers' Monument, designed by Billings on a 
maf^nificent scale, of which the corner-stone was laid 
at Plymouth in 1859, and which, when completed, 
at its estimated cost of three hundred thousand 
dollars, will rank among the most elaborate in the 
world, may be likewise mentioned in this connection. 
The Revolutionary period of our history was most 
fruitful in commemorative occasions. Memorials of 
the earliest contests are perpetuated at Concord and 
Lexington in this State, the first battle-ground of the 
Revolution, at West Cambridge, Acton, Danvers, 
Chelmsford, and at various other towns whose citi- 
zens fell in the opening struggle. I hardly realize 
that I speak to one entire generation in this large 
assembly who could never have seen the Warren 
Monument, raised on Bunker Hill to the memory of 
that first great martyr in our country's cause, Major- 
General Joseph Warren. Erected in 17U4, it was 



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taken down in 1825, that a nobler shaft in its place 
might grace those memorable heights. For the curi- 
ous of coming ages, however, is still preserved, within 
the present monument, an exact miniature model of 
that earlier shaft, most ingeniously wrought in mar- 
ble. And the eloquence of Webster yet lingers on 
the ear, as, at the laying of the corner-stone by Gen- 
eral La Fayette, June 17, 1825, and at the final dedi- 
cation, June 17, 1843, he pronounced, before the 
largest audiences ever gathered in our land, those 
inimitable orations, forever to be associated with the 
imposing obelisk that now towers to the height of 
two hundred and twenty-one feet on Bunker Hill, 
and commemorates with Warren all his heroic asso- 
ciates. 

The monument, erected in 1790, on Beacon Hill, 
Boston, and which was taken down on the grading of 
the hill in 1811, must be distinctly remembered by 
the elder portion of this audience. It was a Doric 
column, four feet in diameter, raised on a pedestal of 
eight feet, and was surmounted by a gilded eagle 
carved, not as yonder enduring effigy, from granite, 
but from wood. The entire height of this monument 
was sixty feet. It took the place of the earlier "'bea- 
con," or flag-staff, of about the same height, that gave 
name to the hill, and which was blown down No- 
vember 26, 1789. On stone slabs, inserted in the 
four faces of the monument, were inscribed impor- 
tant events in the history of the Revolution. These 



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tablets have been carefully preserved at the State 
House, and hope is entertained that they may again 
be restored to the rebuilded monument''' in the vi- 
cinity of its early site, on Boston Common. 

Few monuments more beautiful, I am sure, have 
been raised by private munificence, to commemorate 
the events or the heroes of the Revolution, than 
that erected at Worcester, five years since, by Mr. 
Timothy Bigelow Lawrence, in honor of his great- 
grandfather, the sturdy patriot, Col. Timothy Bige- 
low, who led his company of minute-men so bravely, 
on the 19th of April, 1775, from Worcester to Con- 
cord. A neat monument in freestone to Josiah 
Quincy, Jr., the patriot, who toiled for his country 
which he so loved, and died for her, though not on 
her battle-fields, April 26, 1775, stands in the ancient 
burying-ground at Quincy, the seat of the family, 
bearing an appropriate inscription to the memory of 
the noble martyr and his wife, from the pen of Pres- 
ident John Quincy Adams. And in the First Church, 
adjacent, may be seen mural monuments in memory 
of the two Presidents Adams and their wives, sur- 
mounted with the busts, by Greenough our sculptor, 
of President John Adams and of his son the Presi- 
dent, whose lives and eminent services were so 
closely identified with the history and fortunes of 
their country. 

• Exact eiif^niviiigs of this carliir moiiuim lit and of the beacon in:iy he 
seen in Snow's nistory of Boston. 



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The imposing monument, and the statue of Henry 
Clay, by Crawford, at Louisville, the statue of Com- 
modore Hull, by the same American sculptor, the 
monument of Brigadier-General Stark, the hero of 
Bennington, and of General Ethan Allen, the hero of 
Ticonderoga, wrought for the Capitol of Vermont, — 
these, with many similar, may be classed under the 
period we are considering. The character and ser- 
vices, as well as the peerless fame, of Washington, 
called forth early the best art, native and foreign, of 
painter and sculptor, in portraits, busts and statues 
of various designs. The colossal statue of Washing- 
ton by Greenough, in front of the National Capitol ; 
the beautiful statue in white marble, in quiet repose, 
the costume a military cloak, in our State House at 
Boston, by Sir Francis Chantrey, of England; the 
large statue in sitting posture, by Canova the Ital- 
ian, at Raleigh, North CaroHna; the erect statue, 
probably the best extant, clad in the uniform of an 
American Revolutionary officer, in the Capitol of 
Virginia, by Houdon, the French sculptor, who, in 
October, 1785, in company with Franklin, spent three 
weeks at Mount Vernon with the illustrious subject, 
preparing his model ; and the grand equestrian stat- 
ue in bronze, by our American sculptor Brown, stand- 
ing on that favorable site, Union Square, New York, 
may be cited, a few among the many memorials of 
our revered chief And specially should we notice 
the colossal equestrian statue of Washington, in 



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bronze, twent3^-five feet in height, executed by Craw- 
ford for the State of Virginia. Cast in Munich, Ger- 
many, under the personal oversight of our sculptor, 
it arrived in Richmond early in 1858. So great, we 
are told, was the enthusiasm of the people at the 
sight of the grand spectacle, that with their own 
hands they drew the mas.sive casting to its chosen 
site on Capitol Hill. Would that the noble lessons 
of union and justice and liljerty which Washington 
ever taught, and which those bronze lips seem still 
speaking, had been so planted in the hearts of that 
misguided people that no enthusiasm and excitement 
less commendable than this had since swept as a 
besom of destruction over their beautiful city. 

Monuments in like manner, of manifold patterns, 
have been erected to the Father of his Country, from 
the simplest shaft to the impressive Washington ^lon- 
ument at Baltimore, and the magnificent National 
Monument at the capital, that, receiving contribu- 
tions of curiously wrought stone from every State in 
the Union, and designed to reach the dizzy height of 
six hundred feet, started from its corner-stone on the 
4th of July, 1848, on which occasion Mr. Winthroj) 
pronounced his patriotic oration. 

And yet a third period of special interest in monu- 
mental art in our country may be defined from the 
consecration in 1832, of Mount Auburn, in date the 
first, and may I not add, in beauty and attractiveness 
still, the quiet cpieen of all our rural cemeteries. 



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How within those peaceful shades, in monumental 
designs the simplest and most touching, in designs 
elaborate and magnificent, has Art vindicated for 
herself a high place in our people's regard. The 
noble statues of our early statesmen in her Chapel 
there, Adams and Otis and Winthrop, of Story, our 
jurist, — of Bowditch, our great mathematician and 
navigator, in her grounds, and of others, many, in 
the various departments of high renown, attest this 
regard. The chaste, appropriate, and elegant fune- 
real monuments, erected by affection, from that over 
the grave of Hannah Adams, one of the earliest of 
our American female writers and among the first 
interred at Mount Auburn, to that of Spurzheim, the 
eminent and beloved philosopher, who followed her 
so soon, of the classic Kirkland and Buckminster and 
Channing, and of the many that throng those hal- 
lowed pathways, all assure us of those worthy in- 
stincts of our nature which prompt us, as here 
to-day, to adorn and honor the grave. 

The establishment of Mount Auburn, as you well 
know, has diffused through our land the most com- 
mendable interest in rural cemeteries. As these have 
been consecrated in and about our cities and within 
our country towns, they have multiplied and origi- 
nated approved and tasteful monuments. So that 
everywhere such structures now meet the eye and 
move the heart, from the renewed New England 
burial-ground to the mausoleums and mural tablets 



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that within churches commemorate beloved minis- 
ters whose voices death has hushed, as of Whitefield, 
in the Second Church of Newburjport ; of Freeman, 
Greenwood, Peabody, in the Stone Chapel, Boston ; 
of Whitney and Lunt, in the First Church, Quincy; 
and of Clarke, in the First Church of Uxbridge. 
These structures everywhere plead with us for dear 
memories of the departed, from the simplest shaft 
that love has reared and inscribed, to the elaborate 
statues, in enduring bronze or granite, that stand in 
our public places, as of DeWitte Clinton, statesman 
and pliihmthropist, in Greenwood Cemetery, N. Y.; 
and those in Boston of Franklin, our earliest and 
most renowned philosopher; of Webster, our gifted 
statesman; of Mann, our wise educator, friend of the 
slave and of the oppressed; and of Hamilton, our 
imrivalled financier, who bore the nation so success- 
fully through her early financial struggles. 

Still a fourth period of monumental art in our 
country dates from the war of which this Monument 
and these dedication services tell us. This war, so 
utterly without justification, as I have before de- 
clared, on the part of the assailants, who struck the 
first wild blow at -Sumter, has really inaugurated 
a new era in monumental art, — art funereal, tri- 
umphal. On every side are rising, or have already 
been erected, appropriate memorials to the memory 
of our soldiers who were slain in the field, or who 
fell by rapid or lingering disease, or fruni the linal 



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issue of wounds contracted in that war. To two of 
our Massachusetts soldiers, Luther C. Ladd and Addi- 
son Otis Whitney, of the glorious Sixth, who fell, the 
first martyrs, in Baltimore, on the memorable 19tli of 
April, 1861, our State has erected, by an enactment 
before the close of the war, at Lowell, their place of 
residence, a most expressive and beautiful monu- 
ment. Placed in one of the public squares of the 
city, it was dedicated, by the moving eloquence of 
our great-hearted Governor Andrew, on the 17th 
of June, 1865. His untiring devotion to the good of 
his country, as well as of the Commonwealth, over 
which he presided so ably through all that troubled 
war, his special regard, by day and night, for the 
comfort and welfare of our troops, evinced — soldiers, 
do you recall it ? — in that telegram, despatched at 
once to Baltimore in the bloody fray, that the bodies 
of those slain Massachusetts soldiers be tenderly cared 
for and borne home at the expense of the State, will 
never be forgotten by a grateful people. 

Of this admirable monument at Lowell it cannot 
be out of place to say, that it was designed by the 
same enterprising architects, Messrs. Woodcock and 
Meacham, one of whom has presented in our own 
Monument here, and in similar memorials, erected 
and in process of completion in several other towns 
and cities, such ample evidence of true taste and 
skill. While this gentleman, Mr. Meacham, was an 
undergraduate at our university, it was my lot, as a 



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member of the examining committee, to sit in criti- 
cal judgment on his attainments in certain academic 
studies. But let me .say, friends, that now, in the 
department of monumental architecture, at least, how 
I should shrink from criticism on his acquisitions, 
and how, the rather, it would be for me to sit a most 
humble pupil at his feet. 

Time would fail to enumerate the many places in 
our own State where patriotism and gratitude tow- 
ards our devoted soldiers have inaugurated similar 
movements with our own. Mount Auburn and our 
various rural cemeteries are already dotted with such 
memorials to the fallen brave. Forest Hills Ceme- 
tery, in the beautifully simple and appropriate mon- 
ument just reared to one of the noblest of our young 
scholar soldiers, his fiither a native of this town, 
Theodore Parkman, color-bearer of the Massachusetts 
Forty-fifth, who fell in battle, presents a most happy 
design. Books, which he so loved* but second to 
his country, appear, and over them the national 
flag and the laurel wreath. Our squares, our places 
of pul)lic resort, as well as retired spots, if less 
obtrusive, perhaps more favorable for meditation, 
already tell to the passing age, as they will speak 
to coming generations, the story of the mighty 
sacrifice for union and freedom. And throughout 
the loyal States each day brings us tidings that the 
graves of our patriotic soldiers, no more than the 
service of their lives, shall not be forgotten. Each 



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newspaper tells you that somewhere else through 
these States United, cemented anew in the costly 
ransom of blood and tears and treasure, another mon- 
ument has risen to mark the great struggle, to com- 
memorate the departed fallen in our army and navy, 
to honor, likewise, shall we not say, their compan- 
ions in arms who survived. So, for our own land at 
least, seems likely to be verified that memorable 
saying of Pericles, the peerless orator of Greece, 
while commemorating the Athenian dead, — "This 
whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men." 

Thus, fellow-citizens, instructed by the instincts of 
humanity, by affection and religion, and by the les- 
sons of history, we dedicate this Monument to the 
memory of our soldiers who died for us. We do it 
in gratitude, likewise, to their surviving comrades, 
many of whom are here present with us, who gave 
heart and strength and offered life in the same great 
contest. It becomes you with strong propriety thus 
to commemorate your gallant defenders. Your rec- 
ord through the war has been honorable. Your quo- 
tas have been readily filled. Your sons have borne 
their part in the toils and hardships, in the daring 
exploits, and in the victories on the field and on the 
sea. Your wives and mothers and daughters have 
labored and endured for the sacred cause with wo- 
man's noblest heroism, while your sons have enjoyed 



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certainly their full share in the honorable promotions 
and stations of the military service. 

The 22d of June, 1865, you devoted as a triumphal 
occasion to your returned soldiers. They were wel- 
comed home by public procession, by the peal of 
bells, by the cannon that woke the echoes of our 
hills and valleys. They were greeted by childhood's 
joy and manhood's pride, by graceful decorations, by 
the smiles of mothers and maidens, by music and 
song, by feasting and dancing, even as was King 
David welcomed home from the battle of old. As 
on that joyous occasion we could not forget the brave 
ones who came not home, too, because they had gone 
up to their better home, so to-day, in the commem- 
oration rendered especially to the departed, we do 
not forget the living. Gentlemen, we welcome you 
here to sit with us about this Monument ; with us to 
catch the exalted spirit which it breathes, while you 
drop the beautiful evergreen,'^- emblem of undying 
remembrance and regard, as above the graves of your 
brothers. We welcome you with us to commune 
with your departed comrades whose names it bears, 
and with us to mingle your sympathies and prayers 
for the bereaved hearts and homes whose honest 
tears cannot be quite stayed in the proud considera- 
tion that these have died to save their country. 
With unselfish purpose they went forth from the lion- 

• PIvcrgrccn and flowers were laid by the soldiers aud children on the base 
of the AIoDnincnt. Sec Appendix. 



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orable pursuits of labor, from halls of learning, from 
stations of social ease and enjoyment, from homes 
how precious those homes can now best testify. 
They counted not their own lives dear, so they might 
win victory for the nation. They cared not to live 
to benefit themselves alone. Not of them indeed 
could be uttered that striking Roman taunt, " Qui 
vivit sibi solum prodesse, moriens omnibus prodest :" 
He who lives only to benefit himself gives the 
world a benefit when he dies. And we beg you, sol- 
diers, with us comfort these mourners in the assur- 
ance that their beloved have died thus unselfishly to 
redeem a race from awful bondage, and to transmit 
to future generations the blessings of union and free- 
dom, of equal civil rights, of education and peace, of 
liberty and law. 

With further propriety you make this loyal dedi- 
cation as citizens of a town which, not many years 
since, was embraced in the ancient municipality of 
Cambridge. Your fathers, in their homes hereabouts, 
were still citizens of Cambridge, many of them fore- 
most in patriotic service in the Revolution of 1775. 
As inhabitants of the south part of Cambridge, on 
this side of the Charles River, they stood on their 
Common, now within the limits of Cambridge proper, 
with Washington as he took command of the Amer- 
ican army beneath that ancient elm, still green and 
vigorous, and of late with tender care encircled with 

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an iron balustrade, the patriotic olTering of one of 
your former ministers. 

General Washington, it may be remarked, arrived 
at Cambridge on the 2d of July, 1775, at two o'clock 
in the afternoon, escorted by a cavalcade of citizens 
and a troop of light-horse, having left Philadelphia 
on the 21st of June, and having hastened with all 
possible speed. As he passed through New York, on 
the 25th, he first heard of the battle of Bunker Hill, 
which had been fought eight days before. lie as- 
sumed his command on the 3d of July ; and among 
the first orders '== which he issued, and which is still 
preserved, was that for the military funeral, on the 
5th, of Col. Thomas Gardner, of this part of Cam- 
bridge, who, gallantly leading his regiment in the 
memorable battle of the 17th of June, on Bunker 
Hill, fell, mortally wounded, was borne back here 
across the river, and died on the od of July, in his 
fifty-second year. A pleasant town in Worcester 
County, in this State, incorporated shortly after his 
death, was called Gardner, to perpetuate the name 
and memory of this distinguished officer. One of 
our own streets here, laid out nearh' twenty years 
since through land originally embraced in his estate, 

• "July t, 177o. — Col. Gardner is to be buried to-morrow, at three o'clock, 
P. M., with the military honors due to so brave and gallant an oflicer, who 
fought, bled and died in the cause of his country and mankind. His own regi- 
ment, except the company at Maiden, to attend on this mournful occasion. 
The place of these companies in the lines on Prospect Hill to be sujiplied by 
Col. Glover's regiment till the funeral is over." — Washington's Orders. 



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— and contiguous to which, on South Harvard Street, 
may be seen to-day, beneath three of the noblest 
elms that grace our town, the unfilled cellar of his 
house, removed to Allston Street, and the well of 
whose waters he drank, — commemorates in like 
manner his cherished name/'' 

With these and many kindred associations binding 
the past and the present, you will join heartily in the 

* "Thomas Gardner's regiment, of Middlesex, was commissioned on the 2d 
of June. William Bond was lieutenant-colonel, and Michael Jackson was 
major. After the British landed, this regiment was stationed in the road lead- 
ing to Lechmere's Point, and late in the day was ordered to Charlestown. On 
arriving at Bunker Hill, General Putnam ordered part of it to assist in throw- 
ing up defences commenced at this place. One company went to the rail fence. 
The greater part, under the lead of their colonel, on the third attack advanced 
towards the redoubt. Ou the way, Col. Gardner was struck by a ball, which 
inflicted a mortal wound. While a pai'ty was carrying him off, he had an 
affecting interview with his son, a youth of nineteen, who was anxious to aid in 
bearing him from the field. His heroic father prohibited him, and he was 
borne on a litter of rails over Winter Hill. Here he was overtaken by the 
retreating troops. He raised himself on his rude couch and addressed to them 
cheering words. He lingered until July 3d, when he died. On the 5tli he was 
buried with the honors of war. He had been a member of the General Couit 
and of the Provincial Congress. He was a true patriot, a brave soldier, and 
an upright man." — Frothingham' s Siege of Boston. 

" Fi-om the era of our public difficulties he distinguished himself as an ardent 
friend to the expiring liberties of America, and by the unanimous suffrages of 
his townsmen was for some years elected a member of the General Assembly. 
But when the daring encroachments of intruding despotism deprived us of a 
constitutional convention, and the first law of nature demanded a substitute, 
he was chosen one of the Provincial Congress, in which department he was 
vigilant and indefatigable in defeating every effort of tyranny. To promote 
the interest of his country was the delight of his soul. An inflexible zeal for 
freedom caused him to behold every engine of oppression with contempt, hor- 
ror and aversion. To his family he was kind, tender and indulgent; to his 
friends, unreserved and sincere ; to the whole circle of his acquaintance, affa- 
ble, condescending and obliging ; while veneration for religion augmented the 
splendor of his sister virtues." — Essex Gazette, July 13, 1775. 



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dedication which we make of this Monument to the 
spirit of Patriotism and Loyalty which animated these 
fallen soldiers. It nerved them for the strife. It 
sustained them in the deadly encounter. It speaks 
from this granite shaft as it did from the marble lips 
of those of them on whom we looked shrouded in 
their country's flag for the burial. Patriotism, we 
are hereby assured, has not died out. Many had 
come well-nigh to think of it as peculiarly the noble 
virtue of a by-gone age, and to fancy, often, that men 
like those who framed our Republic — that generals, 
commanders, soldiers, — faithful, steadfast, true as 
those of the American Revolution of 1775 — should 
be known here no more. Natural, perhaps, that the 
heroic age must be always thus placed in the shad- 
owy past. But what learn we to-day from tliis, and 
from these multiform and fast-risinij: monuments of 
which I have spoken ? What great lesson have these 
young martyrs taught us all ? Our present, they tes- 
tify, how heroic has it proved ! The question, so 
long mooted, in regard to our early patriots, whether 
nature or the exigencies of the age produce the men 
needed for the service, seems now put to rest. Shall 
our future annalist, think you, shrink from matching 
our 1SGU-G5 with the 1775 of our fathers, so radiant 
with acknowledged glory ? The patriots, statesmen, 
generals, soldiers of that earlier time, do we them 
injustice when we write on the lengthened scroll the 
names of those on whom this later contest, so glori- 



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ous in its issues, has laid an imperishable renown ? 
The battle-fields of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, of At- 
lanta, Petersburg, and Fredericksburg ; the exploits 
of our monitors ; the passes of the Mississippi ; the 
Georgian tour to the Atlantic by the daring Sher- 
man ; the waters of New Orleans and the approaches 
of Mobile commanded by the intrepid Farragut, — 
does not, shall not equal pride and honor attach 
to them as to the well-fought battle-fields and naval 
exploits of the Revolution, so familiar to our school 
pupils here ? And Washington himself, the truly 
great, stands he now quite so solitary in his country's 
fame ? May not the name of him, the second father 
of his country, our martyred chief, who, with an aim 
so steadfast to the restoration of the Union, to the 
salvation of his country, to the redemption of an 
oppressed race, walked bravely the path of duty that 
led so shortly to the grave, be written on the same 
starry scroll ? Kindred with Washington in some 
of the best attributes of human nature ; a man of 
homely but of wondrous wisdom ; of lowliest humil- 
ity joined with the highest ambition, the ambition to 
serve ; a man of the noblest sense because it was so 
truly common ; the lover of children ; emancipator 
of the bondmen; lover of his land and his race; 
lover and trusting child of the Infinite Father ; loved 
by the soldiers for his honesty and kindness, his 
genial, manly heart, — no dedication services like 
these would be complete that did not recognize the 



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life and services and death of our good President 
Lincoln. In a choice lay of one of our American 
poets, eminent among living dramatists, Mr. George 
II. Boker, and in a single sweet strain from a gifted 
poetess of our own State, Miss Kimball, let his mem- 
ory blend with that of our dead while we dedicate 
this their Monument to the spirit of patriotism that 
inspired them and him : — 

"Nor in your prayers forget the martyred chief, 
Fallen for the gospel of your own belief, 
Who, ere he mounted to the people's throne, 
Asked for your prayers, and joined in them his own. 
I knew the man. I see him, as he stands 
With gifts of mercy in his outstretched hands ; 
A kindly light within his gentle eyes, 
Sad as the toil in which his heart grew wise ; 
His lips half parted with the constant smile 
That kindled truth, but foiled the deepest guile; 
His head bent forward, and his willing car 
Divinely patient right and wrong to hear; 
Great in his goodness, humble in his state, 
Firm in his purpose, yet not passionate, 
Ho led his people with a tender hand, 
And won by love a sway beyond command. 
Summoned by lot to mitigate a time 
Frenzied with rage, unscrupulous with crime. 
He bore his mission with so meek a heart. 
That Heaven itself took up his people's part. 
And, when he faltcied, helped him ere he fell. 
Eking his elTorts out by miracle. 
No king this man, by grace of God's intent, 
No, something better, freemen, — President! 
A natui'e modelled on a higher plan, 
Lord of himself, an inborn gentleman ! " 



" Kest, rest for him whose noble work is done; 
For him who led us gently, unaware. 
Till we were readier to do and daro 
For Freedom, and her hundred fields were won." 



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To Freedom, next to Patriotism and Loyalty, we 
dedicate this Monument in the name of our fallen 
soldiers. For sacred freedom they bore the battle- 
shock. Freedom, I hold, was necessarily involved in 
every worthy issue of that war. Say that we fought 
it out to its glorious end for the restoration of the 
Union, or for the preservation of the Constitution ; 
still, does any man believe that after the first year or 
two of the contest, as the North came thoroughly to 
understand the purpose of the rebels, to experience 
their unparalleled cruelties, and to learn how slavery 
was at the bottom of the whole strife, any union 
could be possible again save in the downfall of 
slavery? Does he believe that any Constitution 
could again be regarded as of the strength of a straw 
that was not wiped clean of this foul leprosy ? 

No ! when, on the 22d of September, 1862, Presi. 
dent Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Emancipa- 
tion, — immortal document, if aught that ever came 
from mortal pen can be immortal, — the great mass 
"of our people, I tell you, were ready for it. The 
army was ready for it. The Almighty, who directed 
all^ — with reverence I speak it, — was ready for it, 
for his own "fulness of time" had come. Humanity, 
not on these shores only, but worn with the tyran- 
nies and oppressions of the Old World, was ready for 
it. Yes ! and many a noble patriot here and there, 
whose weary eyes were strained in watching for this 
glorious light, this second sun of righteousness upon 



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our world, took up that holy scripture strain, "Nunc 
Domine dimittis," " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant 
depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salva- 
tion." 

Thanks, thanks to God who giveth us the victory ! 
"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath 
redeemed." Thanks to our able and successful gen- 
erals and commanders! Thanks to our brave sol- 
diers, the living and the departed, who, under God, 
achieved so great success ! To both our warmest 
gratitude is due. What could either have done with- 
out the other? Mr. President, I cannot discriminate 
in these estimates of worth. It is like capital and 
labor in your own commercial province, each useless 
without the other. Napoleon without his devoted 
soldiers of what avail ? Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, 
Farragut, without their brave boys, — each alone 
would for us have been useless, impotent. To both 
give thanks, through whose efforts went forth that 
sublime decree, the herald of universal freedom in 
our land. 

Following the Proclamation of Emancipation came 
the Constitutional Amendment, announced by procla- 
mation of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, on the 18th 
of December, 1865, as ratified by the requisite three- 
fourths of all the States. This forever banished 
slavery from the land, as the great source of all our 
woe. This enacted that henceforth and forever our 
country must be the home only of the free. And 



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now, to crown the toil and sacrifice of martyr and 
patriot, the Civil Rights Bill, which establishes the 
citizenship of every man born in the country, be he 
white or black, has secured, though, I am sorry to 
add, over the veto of the President, the overwhelm- 
ing approval of Congress. The scene in the Senate 
of the United States on its adoption, on the 6th of 
April last, surpassed in sublime enthusiasm and right- 
eous approbation any which I can recall in parlia- 
mentary history. Far and wide through the loyal 
States, the voice of approval has passed on these 
momentous decrees, in all outward demonstrations 
of joy and gladness, as in pealing cannon and chim- 
ing bell, in glad song and inspiring verse, as well 
as in soundest argument, forensic and popular, — 
never equalled at least in our own land. I except 
not even the announcement of the Declaration of 
Independence, for that was attended with more doubt 
and uncertainty and anxious forebodings on the part 
of the whole people than was the ratification of these 
great measures. 

Who shall so well speak for us the patriotic senti- 
ment of our whole people, while over the land went 
swelling as a tide the general joy at these public 
decrees, as our loyal poet Whittier, in his grand 
"Laus Deo," as his ear caught the sound : — 

It is done ! i How the belfries rock and reel ; 

Clang of bell and roar of gun | How the gi-eat guns, peal on peal, 

Send the tidings up and down. I Fling the joy from town to town ! 
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Ring, O bells! 
Every stroke exulting tells 

Of the burial hour of crime. 
Louil and long, that all may hear, 
King for every listening ear 

Of Eternity and Time ! 

Let us kneel: 
God's own voice is in that peal, 

And this spot is holy ground. 
Lord, forgive us! What are we, 
That our eyes this glory see, 

That our ears have heard the sound ! 

For the Lord 

On the whirlwind is abroad ; 
In the earthquake he has s^poken ; 

He has smitten with his thunder 

The iron walls asunder, 
And the gates of brass are broken ! 

Loud and long 
Lift the old exulting song, 

Sing with Miriam by the sea: 
He has cast the mighty down; 
Horse and rider sink and drown ; 

" He hath triunij)hed gloriously ! " 

Did we dare. 
In our agony of prayer. 
Ask for more than he has done ? 



When was ever his right hand 
Over any time or land 
Stretched as now beneath the sun! 

How they pale. 
Ancient myth and song and tale, 

In this wonder of our days, 
"WTien the cruel rod of war 
Blossoms white with righteous law, 

And the wrath of man is praise ! 

Blotted out! 
All within and all about 

Shall a fresher life begin; 
Freer breathe the universe 
As it rolls its heavy curse 

On the dead and buried sin! 

It is done! 
In the circuit of the sun 

Shall the sound thereof go forth. 
It sliall bid the sad rejoice. 
It shall give the dumb a voice. 

It shall belt with joy the earth ! 

Ring and swing, 
Bells of joy ! On morning's wing 

Send the song of praise abroad ! 
With a sound of broken chains 
Tell the nation that He reigns, 

Who alone is Lord and God! 



Say I not well then, friends, soldiers, that this 
Monument shall stand to impartial and universal 
freedom henceforth consecrate ? Nay, ye spirits of 
the slain in battle, who, so many voices testify, have 
not died in vain, answer ! Ye, ten thousand times 
worse than slain, starved, or frozen, or burned ones, 
murdered by inches in slavery's prison-pens, not 



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houses, speak and answer ! We know your reply to 
this our question. But charge us, charge us all,— 
fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, kindred perchance 
by any tie with some slain soldier,— charge these 
school children even, who have given you in these 
fresh flowers laid on your Monument so fit an expres- 
sion of their love, and whose sweet voices, in the 
beautiful and touching hymn of one of our own citi- 
zens, has sung your requiem,— charge us all that 
here, at the base of this Monument, we dedicate 
ourselves anew, as the holiest consecration of your 
shrine, to the sacred cause of Freedom, Patriotism, 
Loyalty ! 

Fellow-citizens, I have uttered all too inadequately 
some of the thoughts which crowd for utterance at 
this hour. Most grateful has been to me the opportu- 
nity to speak in this commemoration. Most grateful 
to me, who along these three-and-twenty years past 
have so often stood by the bedsides of your dying 
and over your cofi&ned dead, thus to assist in paying 
these last public rites to the memory of your beloved 
ones whose names henceforth are associated with 
their country's fame. In kindUest sympathy, in 
warmest gratitude, be assured, that country holds its 
many bereaved households. In Christian faith and 
hope be entreated, ye sorrowing ones, to remember 
the good thus slain in battle as your treasure and 
your country's treasure laid up on high. Be assured 



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ye have given them in a worthy cause. The nation 
is richer that they have died, prouder before the 
world that ye had them to give. Hark to our gifted 
poet, whose familiar national hymn we shall sing 
before leaving these grounds : — 

"Weep for their memoij! would they had not died! 
Sing for their memory! 'tis the nation's pride!" 

Cherishing from the very opening of the strife the 
most sanguine faith in the ultimate triumphs of my 
country over armed rebellion, I rejoice with you, 
friends, in the nation's repose. With old blind Mil- 
ton, "bating no jot of heart or hope" in her darkest 
hours, battling not on the field, — shame on us lag- 
gards at home ! — I have battled as I was able with 
the nation's foes, open or secret, with the faithless, 
the doubters, the fearful ones, for the nation's finan- 
cial sufficiency, as for her moral integrity, her God- 
approving course, her sure victory in the end. Speak- 
ing ever in utter condemnation of the parricides who 
went from the nation's Senate, declaring, just before, 
as did Alexander H. Stephens, ours " the most benefi- 
cent government of which history gives us any ac- 
count," — declaring, as did Jefferson Davis, ours " the 
best government ever instituted by men, unexcep- 
tionably administered, and under which the people 
have been prosperous beyond comparison with any 
other people whose career has been recorded in his- 
tory," — went thus to plunge daggers in their moth- 



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er's heart, I congratulate you on their hypocrisy 
exposed, their schemes frustrated, their armies de- 
feated and scattered, the nation saved. While sev- 
eral of the nations of Europe have just become 
involved in a war, the complications and issues of 
which no seer arises yet satisfactorily to predict, we 
sit in peace. We will believe that the years of war 
which we have suffered are the earnest of richest 
blessings to our land. With our illustrious loyal 
statesman, Josiah Quincy, who died those few months 
only before final victory crowned our arms, — as did 
his renowned father " Quincy the Patriot," of whom 
I have spoken, those few days only after the open- 
ing of the great drama of the American Revolution 
he so longed to see, — we too will count the war, as 
he assured me he did, as " the most hopeful sign of 
the country's future." 

We raise these monuments to commemorate alike 
those who helped and still live, and those who, help- 
ing, died to save our land. If, through any ungodly 
allurement, we prove recreant to the exalted princi- 
ples for which we waged the war, these monuments 
shall only point our shame. But if we all are true, 
these silent beacons, radiant with the celestial light 
that encompasses the departed heroes whose names 
they bear, shall point to dawning glory for our land, 
which eye hath not seen,, nor ear heard, nor the heart 
of man conceived. 



APPENDIX. 



The town of Brighton contributed liberally of men and means for 
the suppression of the Rebellion. More than two hundred enlisted in 
the service of their country, and twenty-three furnished substitutes. 
A list of the names may be seen in the Town Municipal Report, 18G5. 
In the war of the American Revolution, few towns manifested a more 
patriotic spirit than Cambridge, of which place Brighton made part 
until set oflf and incorporated as a separate town, February 28, 1808. 
Something of this earlier patriotism appears to have animated the 
descendants of those worthies of 1775 in the recent struggle. 

Large contributions in money were made, and large stores of cloth- 
ing and army and hospital necessaries and comforts were furnished 
steadily through the untiring labors of the ladies of the Soldiers' Aid 
Society. The burden of bereavement was laid heavily on some of our 
homes as beloved ones were slain on the battle-fields, or died by 
disease contracted in the service of their country. Still, the noble end 
we had in view — the preservation of our nationality, — the supremacy 
of the government, — the freedom of the oppressed, — the maintenance 
of order, liberty, law — was deemed worthy the mighty sacrifice. 
And when, at length, after four weary years of warfare, these glorious 
issues were secured, in the defeat and surrender of the rebel armies, 
no town joined more heartily than ours in the triumphant celebration 
of Peace. None rendered sincerer thanksgiving to Almighty God, 
who had counselled our counsellors, who had led and blessed our 
armed hosts and given us the victory. None with more heart-felt 
joy, or with prouder jubilee, welcomed back their returned soldiers. 

But the gratitude of our citizens toward their brave defenders was 
not yet satisfied. It was felt that a permanent memorial should stand 
to testify to after ages our regard for our heroes. The subject was 
brought before the Annual Town Meeting in March 18G5, through an 
article in the warrant in these words : — "To see what action the town 
will take to commemorate the names of the inhabitants of the town 
who have lost their lives in the service of the country in the present 



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A committee chosen to consider the subject reported at a sub- 
sequent mooting iu April in favor of erectiug a monument. At the 
same time the committee was enlarged, embracing in all, twelve, 
whose names follow : — 

CHAKLES HEARD, LIFE BALDWIN, 

AUGUSTUS MASOX, GUANVILLE FULLER, 

AVILLAKU ADAMS HARRINGTON, NATILVNIKL JACKSON, 

EDWAKD AUGUSTUS STOUY, CIIAKLKS HKNUY UASS BRECK, 

WEAUE DOW BICKFOUD, HORACE WHEELEU JORDAN. 

Mr. Heard declining to serve as chairman, Mr. Bickford was chosen, 
and Dr. Mason served as permanent secretary. 

Under the judicious direction of this Committee, the work was 
prosecuted, and arrangements were finally concluded for dedicating 
the Monument, Thursday afternoon, July 2G, 186G, at half-past three 
o'clock. 

A i)latform erected on tlie north-west side of the Monument (tlie right 
as appears in the engraving) for the speakers. Committee and invited 
guests, was tastefully adorned with Howers and flags, the floral deco- 
rations being the grateful ottering of Mr. and ^Irs. Winship. Seats 
facing the platform were provided for a large congregation, and it was 
estimated that more than a thousand persons were present. 

The occasion had been announced in several of the Boston papers. 
The weather was most delightful, sunny, clear and cool. The 
returned soldiers of the town assembled at ^Mason's Hall on Washing- 
ton Street, corner of Harvard Place, at half-past one o'clock. The 
school children with tlieir teachers were arranged on Market Square, 
opposite the Hall, at two o'clock. The procession, embracing these 
bodies and such of the citizens as had not already assembled at the 
Monument, attended by the Cambridge Band, marclied through Wash- 
ington, Foster and South Streets, to Evergreen Cemetery. The 
imposing gateway on South Street, iu Egyptian architecture, is sur- 
mounted with an entablature, bearing on either side the name and date 
of the consecration of the Cemetery, and those hallowed words : — 

" Now is Christ risen Oom the dead.'' 
" My peace I leave with you " : — 

The Christian's song of triumph on bearing in his dead, and the 
Saviour's precious legacy for tlie bereaved on leaving the groumls. 

The wliole gateway, on this occasion, wixs beautifully drajied in 
crai)e and flags. Passing beneath the gateway, the procession wound 
through Central Avenue, and on the left side of North (irove to 
Chapel (Jrove, in which the Monument stands. Marching around the 
Monument, each soldier deposited a sprig of evergreen, and each pupil 



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a spray of flowers, upon its base, to the memory of the deceased 
heroes, and, iinder the direction of Sergeant Calvin Rice, and William 
Augustus Putnam Willard, Principal of the Bennett Grammar School, 
took the seats reserved for them. 

After music by the band, Mr. Bickford, president of the day, made 
the following address : — 

Fellow-Citizens : — 

We are assembled to-day to consecrate a Monument erected to the memory 
of the patriotic citizens of Brighton who lost their lives in defence of their 
country in the late Rebellion. 

It is now nearly six years since the conspiracy to break up this great confed- 
eracy of States, to destroy our Constitution, and even our nationality, broke 
out in open rebellion against the general government. But the echo from the 
first gun that was fired upon Fort Sumter was heard in every hamlet of the 
Free States. It awoke an enthusiastic love of country and of our institutions, 
that had, apparently, been sleeping for more than a quarter of a century. Our 
citizens rushed to arms from every station in society, leaving business, friends, 
wives and children, with a full determination to put down the rebellion and 
save their country. 

The fire of patriotism that was kindled at the first attack upon Fort Sumter 
continued to bui-u with increasing lustre during all the years of the struggle. 
At every call for volunteers by the President of the United States, men came 
forward with unprecedented enthusiasm to fill our regiments and form new 
organizations, until our armies in the field became invincible in numbers as 
well as in patriotism. This enabled us, under the leadership of our able 
generals and the judicious management of the government, to subdue the 
rebellion and restore peace to our distracted country. 

Many of our volunteers are here to-day, happy in the consciousness of having 
done their duty to their town and their country, to participate in this conse- 
cration. Some lie buried in the hero's gi-ave, having died from disease 
incident to camp life, or fighting gallantly for their land. To their memory 
this Monument has been erected. 

The Committee, in discharging their gi-ateful service, have had no sinecure 
work to perform. But if their efiforts prove s'atisfactory to their fellow-citizens, 
they are amply rewarded. When this Monument was first contemplated, but 
few such had been erected. Some of these were examined. Architects were 
invited to submit designs and stone-cutters' estimates. After many meetings 
of the Committee and due inquiry as to the durability and expense of difterent 
kinds of granite, it was decided to adopt the Quincy granite and the design 
furnished by George Frederic Meacham, Esq., of Boston. The models for the 
eagle and the shield were carved by William H. Hastings, ship carver, of 
Boston. The contract for cutting the Monument was given to Messrs. Adam 
Vogel & Son of Quincy. Messrs. A. C. Sanborn & Co., of East Cambridge, 
furnished the curb- stone and steps, and the laying of the same was by Mr. 
Haslett, of Cambridge. 

The Committee would congi-atulate the inhabitants of the town on the very 
liberal subscriptions which have been made, and on the general and cordial 
response of all classes, including the teachers and pupils of the public schools, 
to the patriotic call. 

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And now, fellow-citizens, in Inlialf of the Committee of Arrangements, to 
•whom you entrusted the construction of this Monument, I sunender it to your 
care. And I particular!}' charge you so to cherish and preserve it, tlxat it may 
be handed down to the latest generations, that the future may know who of the 
men of Brighton have died in this eventful crisis that their country might be 
saved. 

Nfxt followed on the printed Order of Exercises a selected livnm 
from llie pen of ^liss Anna II. Phillips : — 

Our Father, all thy glorious earth 

Is consecrated ground; 
l'"or everywhere, on laud and sea, 

Thy life and love are found : 
Yet, by thy special blessing, Lord, 

To us may balluwcd be 
This place of sloop for our beloved. 

Whose spirits rest with Thee I 

U, Father! guarded by thy love 

And hiilUiwed be each grave 
O'er which the snows of winter fall, 

Or summer's blossoms wave; 
And let thy tenderness enfold 

The mourner by the dead. 
Thou who dost number all our woes. 

And every tear we shed ! 

Oh, teach the bowed and stricken heart 

How beautirul is death, — 
Teach it the glory of tliat life 

Succeeding mortal breath ; 
IJevoal that " many-mansionod" home 

Whose gates shut out all pain, 
Where we, in thine eternal light, 

Shall know our loved agaiu I 

Selections from the Scriptures were then read, and prayer offered 
by the Kov. Ralph H. Bowles, j)astor of the Baptist Church, Brighton. 

Ist samtki, XXXI. n-i:t. 

" And when the inhaliitants of .Inbosli-gilead hoard of that which the rhllistinos Un<l 
done to Saul, all llie valiant men arose, and went all night, and took tho body of Saul, 
and the bodies of his sons, from the wall of Itothslian, and came to .Jabosh, and burnt 
them there. .\nd they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and 
fasted seven days." 

2d Samtkl I. 17, 10-27. 

" And Daviil lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan, his son : 
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fullon I Tell it 
not in (iath, publish it not in the streets of Askelou, lost the daughters of tho I'hilis- 
tinos rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircunicisod triumph. Ye mountains of 
Ollboa, lot there bo no dow, noithor let there be rain upon you, nor fields of ollorings: 
for tliiTo tho shiold of tho mighty Is viloly ca.«t away, tho shi.M of ."saul, as though he 
had not boon anointed with oil. From the bli>od of the slain, from tho fat of the 
mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not 



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empty. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death 
they were not divided : they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. 
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, wlio clothed you in scarlet, with other 
delights ; wlio put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel. How are the mighty 
fallen in the midst of the battle I O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thy high places. I 
am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been uuto me; 
thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, 
and the weapons of war perished 1 " 
Psalm xviii. 3G-43, 4?-49. 

" Thou liast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip. I have pursued 
mine enemies, and overtaken them : neither did I turn again till they were consumed. 
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise; they are fallen under my feet. 
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; thou hast subdued under me 
those that rose up against me. Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, 
that I might destroy them that hate me. They cried, but there was none to save them; 
even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. Then did I beat them small as the 
dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets. For thou hast 
delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the 
heathen : a people whom I have not known shall serve me. It is God that aveugeth 
me, and subdueth the people under me. He delivereth me from mine enemies ; yea, 
thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me ; thou hast delivered me from the 
violent man. Therefore will I give thanks uuto thee, O Lord, among the heathen, and 
sing praises unto thy name." 
Psalm xxii. 3-5. 

" But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted 
in thee; they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee and were 
delivered ; they trusted in thee and were not confounded.'' 
Isaiah i,xi. l, 2, 4. 

" The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to 
preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to 
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound ; 
to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God ; to 
comfort all that mourn. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up tlie 
former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations ot many 
generations." 
Ist Corinthians xv. 20-22, 51-58. 

" But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them Uiat 
slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the doad. 
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. Behold, I shew you 
a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall 
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on 
incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible 
shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then 
shall be brought to pass' the saying that is written. Death is swallowed up in victory. 
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is 
sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanksbe to God, which giveth us the 
victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stead- 
fast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know 
that your labor is not in vain in the Lord." 

PRAYER. 

O Almighty God, who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against tlie 
face of their enemies ; we yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from 
those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed, and that thou didst 
lead our armies, and time our chocks and successes until we were road) ior the accom- 



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pllshmcnt of thy great and good purposes, and then thou didst vouchsafe us a complete 
victory over our foes; that by thy providential direction the war, begun to perpetuate 
and nationalize slavery, resulted in its overthrow and in the emancipation of millions 
In our land, wIkj had long borne the oppressor's yoke; that thou didst give us loyalty, 
patriotism, patience, perseverance and self-sacrilice ei)ual to the fearful exigency ; that 
thou didst raise up for us leaders, able and true; and fur all that thy good hand hath 
wrought in us and by us. In particular, we thank thee that so many of our fellow- 
townsmen, who took their lives in their hands and went out from us to tight the battles 
of their country, have returned in safety, and are here to share with us to-day in a 
tribute of respect to their departed comrades in arras. And as they read this record of 
the names of the departed, and remember when those now sleeping were alive and 
with them in the camp or on the lield, may a sense of thy goodness that spared them 
constrain them to give themselves up to thee and thy service. May the remembrance of 
toils endured, and service perlbrmed for their country in her need, be a satisfaction to 
thein as long as their lives endure. Jlay thy favor ever rest upon them. Make them 
all good soldiers of the cross,— give them moral courage and spiritual strength to light 
the good tight of faith, and in thy heavenly kingdom acknowledge tliQm conquerors, 
aud more than coiKjuerors, through Him that loved them and gave himself for them. 

O Jlost Merciful Jehovah, who doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of 
men, who art the widow's God and the Father of the fatherless, we most earnestly 
beseech thee to regard with tender compassion those whom this war has stricken and 
bereaved. Mitigate their sorrows and heal their griefs by the communications of thy 
Spirit and the gifts of thy grace. We especially commend to thee the surviving friends 
of those whose cherished names this Monument bears. May they be comforted by the 
thought that their loved and departed have not lived or died iu vain; that, though 
they fell, the righteous cause of liberty and humanity was strengthened and upheld by 
their fall; that, though they rest from their labors, their works do follow them, 
AVilt thou have these stricken mourners always iu thy latherly care, and provide for 
all their wants. In every time of their loneliness and grief, may they hear their 
Saviour say, " Come unto me, all ye that labor aud are heavy laden, and I will give 
you rest." 

O Lord our Heavenly Father, the high and mighty Kuler of the universe, who dost 
from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth, most heartily we beseech thee 
with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant, the President of the United States, and 
all others in authority; and so replenish them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that 
they may always incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: that all things may be so 
ordered and settled by their endeavors, upon the best and surest foundations, that 
peace and happiness, truth aud justice, religion aud piety, may be established among 
us for all generations. 

O Uighteous Father, we humbly acknowledge that we have justly deserved thy 
rebukes and the suffering we have endured. But may thy chastisements teach all this 
nation wisdom and righteousness, so that In time to come we may be spared from the 
burdens and bereavements of war. While we mourn before thee the loss of our frieuds 
aud fellow-townsmen who have laid down their lives in their country's cause, we 
thank thee for all that was manly and magnanimous, patriotic and jiious, in their 
example. An<l we invoke thy smile of ajiproval ui)on this Monument, which we have 
erected to honor and perpetuate their memories. He pleased to look upon it as a 
thank-otlering to thee for thy gifts to us and to our cause of the lives and services it 
commemorates. .May it please thee to watch and preserve it through the changes of 
suminir's heat and winter's cold for many coming generations, and give it a voice 
teaching us, and our childrcu's children after us, that he that loseth his life for 
Christ's and humanity's sake shall lind it again glorilied and blessed. 

Let thy protection keep and thy hand lead us through the duties of this day. Assist 
and bless all who engage in them, esi)ecially thy servant who is to address us. 3Iay 
what he shall say stir up and increase in us all pious and patriotic emotions, and may 
we return from this sadly interesting occasion wiser and better than we came; with 



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more love to men; better fitted to serve our country and generation and to glorify 
thee our God. 

Command thy blessing upon our industry, upon our schools, our churches, our 
ministry, upon all the inhabitants and all the interests of this town. Especially do 
we earnestly 'entreat thee' to keep and save our precious children and youth, and make 
them a seed to serve thee when we shall be no more. Fill the whole earth with thy 
glory. " Let thy kingdom come, and thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." 

Make us deeply sensible, we beseech thee, of the shortness and uncertainty of human 
life. And give us grace so to pass the time of our sojourning here in thy love and 
service, that when we depart this life we may be meet to be partakers of the inherit- 
ance of the saints in light, — through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

The following beautiful hymn, written for the occasion, by Augustus 
Mason, M. D., of Brighton, was then sung : — 

Now to our patriot dead be paid 
The tribute of immortal fame, 
While gratefully we breathe each name 

On this memorial sliaft displayed. 

On many a Southern field they fell. 

Battling for Freedom and the Right; 

And in the thickest of the fight 
They bore their country's standard well : 

Or perished in the traitors' pen ; 

Or, 'mid the hardships of the field. 

Their loyalty with life they sealed, 
And died like brave, true-hearted men. 

To all who sleep a soldier's sleep. 

Where'er they lie, — in hallowed ground. 
Or those above whose grass-grown mound 

Sad stars their lonely vigils keep,— 

To all our brave, heroic band 

Who nobly met a soldier's fate. 

This Monument we consecrate; 
God bless them and our native land I 

The Oration by the Rev. Mr. Whitney occupied in the delivery 
about one hour and a half. Music by the band followed. The Na- 
tional Hymn, by the Rev. Samuel F, Smith, D. D., of Newton, " My 
Country, 'tis of Thee," was sung by the assembly ; and the Benedic- 
tion was pronounced by the Rev. Mr. Bowles. 



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RESOLUTIONS. 

Immediately after the services of dedication, the returned soldiers 
assembled at Mason's Hall, and appointed a committee to draft 
resolutions expressing their sense of the memorial work. 

At an adjourned meeting, August 6, Mr. Willard, from the commit- 
tee, presented the following, which were unanimously adopted : — 

Wliereas, the patriotic people of I$ri{»hton, by general subscription, liave caused to 
be erected, in Evergreen Cerautery, a suitable 3Ionunu>nt to perpetuate the memory of 
tlie gallant dead, our companions in arms, who nobly sacrificed tlieir lives to sustain 
the Union and the Constitution, that justice and liberty might be established, and 
life, peace, and the pursuit of bapptuesa might forever be the common heritage ; 
therefore 

Itesolred, That we tender our most grateful thanks to our fellow-citizens for the 
liberality, public spirit and patriotism they have manifested in erecting the Monument, 
that the deeds of the heroic men whose memory it consecrates might be forever per- 
petuated. 

liemilved, That, grateful to Divine Providence for preserving our own lives from 
the imminent perils of the late war, now hajipily ended, so that we have been per- 
mitted to participate in the dedication of the Monument and to pay our tribute of 
respect to the memory of our deceased comrades, — we hereby express to the Monu- 
ment Committee our appreciation of their zeal and energy in prosecuting the work 
and of their signal success in the completed structure; and also our obligations for 
their courtesy in consulting the wishes of the returned soldiers in regard to tlie 
arrangementii on the day of dedication and for their active co-operatiou in executing 
the same. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the Monument 
Committee. 

AUGUSTUS MASON, CHARLES EDMUND RICE, 

Chuirman. Secretary, 



DECEASED SOLDIERS 

HEKE COMMEMORATED. 



PATRICK B VRKY.-Born in Ireland, 1827; son of Thomas. Came to this country, 
184- and lived with his half-brother, William Ring, on Oakland Street, Brighton ; mar- 
ried' Boston, 1.^58, Elizabeth Callahan. Enlisted here, Nov. 18, ]8(U, for three years, 
in 4th Mass. Vols. In camp at North Cambridge till Jan. 18(52, when the regiment 
was ordered South. Having taken cold, he was sick in hospital at Hilton Head, S. C. 
Under date May 21, he writes home to his wife in affectionate and hopeful terms, en- 
closing money. He died in the hospital, June 7, 1802, seventeen days after his last 
letter,\nd was interred at Hilton Head, leaving his widow in feeble health, and two 
sons, of sixteen and fifteen years, residing on Kiver Street, Brighton. 

Elias H \stings Bennett. - Born at Brighton, Sept. 13, 1840. Son of Elias Dexter 
and Almira (Wellington) Bennett. Educated at Brighton ; passing honorably through 
the several -rades of schools, and entered on mercantile life in Boston, as clerk. 1 hree 
or four years had been passed here, when the battle-cry called him to the service of his 
country before he had attained his twenty-first year. He enlisted for three years in the 
1.3th Mass Vols., having been first connected with the 4th Battalion of Rifles, which was 
absorbed in the 1.3th. He left Boston for the field July 29, 1861. He was in several 
skirmishes and engagements with the enemy, and fell, nobly serving, on Saturday, 
Aug 30 ]8(>2, in the disastrous battle of Bull Run, Va. His body was buried on the 
field with other comrades. His excellent character in the service is attested by the 
sympathetic communication of Rev. Mr. Gaylord, chaplain of the 13th, and by his 
officers and fellow-soldiers. The home whore he was so dear has in his early death a 
cherished and holy memory. His parents, with two surviving sons, one of whom is in 
business in Boston and one an undergraduate at Harvard University, reside on Market 
Street Bri-hton. His father was born at Lancaster, Mass., April 6, 1815, son of Elias 
and s'aralMHastings) Bennett; his mother, at Westminster, Mass., Aug. 1, 1818, 
daughter of Seth and Louisa (Miles) Wellington. 

Ch'.rles Bryant Gushing. -Born in Boston, Dec. 5, 1841, only son of Solomon 
Bryant and Maria (Thaxter) Gushing. He removed with his parents in 1855 to 
Brighton at whose schools his education was completed. He enlisted for three years, 
July 16 1861, not twenty years old, in the 13th Mass. Vols. He *?as drowned on Friday, 
June 6th 1862, as he was crossing the river Shenandoah, at Front Royal, \ a., with a 
detachment of his comrades in a boat to rejoin their regiment previously passed over 
on the bridge. A violent rain-storm had in the mean time so swollen the river as to 
carry away the bridge. Young Gushing, though a fine swimmer, was unable to stem 
the current. His body was recovered in eight days and buried by the river. His 
parents both born in Boston, reside at Brighton, comforted in precious memories and 
fond mementos of their son,- having his diary returned, in which he wrote as he was 
about to cross the river, -and kind testimonial letters from the chaplain of the 13th, 
and those noble parting words of their boy in answer to their Beluctant consent to 
his enlistment, -"Though we are young, if we stay behind, who is to save the 
country ? " 



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William Ciialxcy Dailey.— Born at Cambridge, Jan. 13, 1845; son of Lewis and 
Hannali Iluntinjr (Kariiiigton) Dailey. He removed with his fatiier in 1855 to Brighton, 
wliere he attended scliool. In Aug., 1801, then in his seventeenth year, he enlisted for 
three years, in tlie ."iMd Mass. VdIs., Co. K. He went out witli a brave devoted spirit, 
and served most faithfully in various engageniouts ; but was not permitted to complete 
his term of enlistment. He was wounded in a skirmish at Acquorth, near Marietta, 
Georgia; lived tliree days; died June 20, ]S<W, in his twentieth year, and was buried 
there. His mother, daughter of Isaac and Mehitable(Hunting) Furrington of Brighton, 
died at Cambridge, March 11, lh53. His father, born at .^^tanstead, C. K., April, 1814, 
Bon of John and Clara, subsequently married Mrs. Emily (Winsor) Herrick, widow of 
Thomas Waterman Herrick; died at Brigliton, Nov. 18, 1W>4, from the eflects of a 
fall from staging, sliortly previous. 

John Flint Day. — Born at .Strong, Me., May l'.», 1S24; son of John and Mary 
(Norton) Day. He was nwrriej at Carlisle, .Mass., January 2, In.55, to .Miss .Sibbyl S. 
Kobbins of that place, and came on that day to reside at Brighton. He was appointed 
on the 1st July, 1801, postmaster of Brighton. Here he enlisted for three years, Jan. 
9, 1804, in the 4th JIass. Cavalry, Co. D. On the irth of .\ugust following he was in an 
engagement at Gainsville, Florida. With a detachment of the cavalry he was pursued 
by the enemy. Tlie others escaping, he was driven into a swamp, where he was fed by 
a negro woman three weeks. Finally he was captured by a squad of rebel cavalry, 
and taken to Andersonville prison, place of awful memories in the heart of a civilized 
world. He was snbseipiently removed to the rebel prison at Millen, Georgia, where 
he died, t)ct. 20, IsiVl, in his forty-first year, after a week of sickness induced by starva- 
tion. His grave is No. 203 at Camp Lawton, Millen. The record of the faithful and 
affectionate husband, fiitlier, son and brother is thus added to that of the younger patriots 
who were bound by fewer ties to home. He leaves his widow, who has cliarge of the 
post-ofScc at Brighton, a son often, and two daugliters of eight and seven years of age, 

JoKL Davknpout Di'iiLEY. — Born at Brighton, Feb. 17, 1842; son of Joseph 
Davenport and Lovina Tai)lln (Celley) Dudley. He was educated at the public schools 
of Brighton. In Nov., INll, when in Ids twentieth year, he enlisted for three years, in 
the 1st JIass. Cavalry, whicli was subsecjuently united with tlie 4th. Ue-enlisling Jan., 
1S04, he secured the privilege of a furlough and visited his home. Ueturning after 
faithful service on the battle-field, on a second furlough, he was married at .Montpelier, 
Vt., March 3, 1805. to Jliss Lydia Slayton, who, born at Black IJock, near lUiffalo, N. Y., 
removed with her father's family to Vermont, where had been his earlier home. 

Our gallant young soldier, corporal in the cavalry, left his bride and home at 
Brigliton in health and hope and promise to rejoin the army, on Tuesday, March 7th, 
and was killed in thirty days, Thursday, April 0th, 1805, in his twenty-fourth year, in 
that last critical battle at High Bridge, Va., which enforced the surrender of the rebel 
General Lee, and in which Cajitain William T. Hodges, of Hoxbury, and Col. Francis 
Washburn of Worcester, of the same cavalry corps, fell. In November following the 
body was brought home. Funeral services were con<iucted by Kev. Frederic A. Whitney, 
Sunday, Nov. I'.i. .Major ."^tevens of the 4th Cavalry and many of the comrades and 
friends of the faithful and brave i)atriot deceased were present. Interment was In the 
family lot at Evergreen Cemetery. His father, born at Ko.xbury, son of Samuel and 
Susannah (Davenport) Dudley, lives at Brighton, having one surviving son. His 
mother, born at Woodbury, Vt., daughter of .loel and I'hebe (Hlanchani) Celley, died 
at Brighton, Nov. 13, 1800. His wife is at her father's, near Montpellcr, Vt. 

John WAititKN Fowi.K.— Born at Quincy, JIarch 12, l.«!3S; only son of .lolin and 
Elizabeth (.Vrnold) Fowle. When twelve years old he removed with his parents to 
Boston ; and residing subsequently at Watertown and Framlnghain, came with them to 
Brighton in 1851. l;i October, 1n;2, one year of this interval having been passed with 
his parijnts at Braintree, he enlisted for nine months in the 45th .Mass. V. M., the Cadet 
Kegimcnt, and, from the encampment at Ke:i(lville, left Bostiii for New bcrn, N. C. 



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Having excellent musical talent, he served the regiment in this capacity, and was pro- 
moted as major drummer. Having faithfully served out his term of enlistment, virin- 
ning the warm regards of his comrades and officers, he was taken sick and two days 
after started for home. 

Suffering much in the steamer on the way, from the want of proper attention on the 
part of the authorities to the sick soldiers, ho arrived at Brighton, June 30, 1863. 
Here, watched with tender care in the bosom of a loving home, through the delirium 
of typhus fever in which he fancied he heard the martial music to which he had so 
ably contributed, he died July S, 18(33, in his twenty-sixth year, and his body was taken 
to Quincy for interment. His father, born at Quincy, May 21, 1804, son of Jacob and 
Sarah (Cleverly) Fowle, and his mother, born at Quincy, March 24, 1808, daughter of 
Joseph and Elizabeth (Briesler) Arnold, live at Brighton, on Cambridge Street, — of 
their children two married daughters only surviving. 

George Edwin Frost. — (The middle name accidentally omitted on page 10.) 
Born at West Cambridge, April 18, 1845; son of Ephraira and Caroline (Cutter) Frost. 
Attended school at West Cambridge. He wont early to Sanbornton, IS^. H., to work on 
a farm, was subsequently at Waltham in the employ of Mr. Horace Wilson, who mar- 
ried his sister; at Newton with Mr. Daniel Knowles; and came to Brighton, Oct., 1863, 
to live with Mr. Edmund Rice, who testifies of him as one of the most faithful and 
worthy of the many men whom he has had in his employ. Impelled by a strong sense 
of duty, he enlisted at Brighton in the 11th Mass. Battery, Jan., 18C5. He served iu 
the engagements at Chancellorsville and in the Wilderness, was wounded, lived three 
days, and died in hospital at Fredericksburg, Va., May 13, 1805, and was buried there. 
His father, son of Ephraim, was born and died at West Cambridge. His mother, 
born there, daughter of Jonas Cutter, subsequently married (2d) Ebenezer Morrison, 
and lives at Sanbornton, N. H. Three children survive, — a son with her, who was 
also in the late U. S. service; and married daughters at Waltham, and iu the State of 
Wisconsin. 

Henry Hastings Fuller. — Born at Brighton, Dec. 7, 1829; son of Ebenezer and 
Sarah Jackson (Hastings) Fuller. Educated in Brighton ; married in Boston, March 18, 
1855, Miss Mary Jlehitable, born and resident at Brighton, daughter of Francis William 
and Harriet (Harding) Broad of that place. In 1SG2, he enlisted in the 3Sth Mass. V. 
M., and in the summer left the encampment at Lynntield, for the South. He died in 
University Hospital, New Orleans, La., of chronic diarrhoea, Aug. 16, 1863, in his 
thirty-fourth year. His friends, in their sorrow for the thithful and beloved husband, 
father, son and brother, were comforted, as the bereaved friends of many soldiers de- 
ceased could not be, that the body was restored to them. The first of our soldiers 
brought home for interment, his body arrived here in Jan. 1864. Funeral services were 
conducted in the First Church here, by Rev. Messrs, Whitney, Cushman and Noyes, 
Thursday afternoon, Jan. 28 ; and the interment was at Evergreen Cemetery. His 
widow lives in Boston. Of his two children, one survived him. His father, born at 
Brighton, Feb. 19, 1793, son of Deacon Ebenezer and Martha (Bryant) Fuller, and 
his mother, born at Brighton, July 21, 1796, daughter of Reuben and Grace (Jackson) 
Hastings, celebrated at their home here on Cambridge Street, Monday, May 1, 1865, 
the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, their golden wedding, which fell on Sun- 
day, April 30, and are living here in active health, and in the happy intercourse of 
children and children's children. 

John Golding. — Born at Brighton, June 18, 1843; son of Peter and Catharine 
(Murtargh) Golding. He was educated at Brighton. In Slay, 1861, he enlisted at 
Brighton for three years in the 11th Mass. V. M., Co. F. He served faithfully through 
his whole term, sharing in various engagements, and at regular intervals, in the sjiirit 
of a true son, sending home a portion of his wages. On the 3d of July, 1863, he was 
killed, in the memorable battle of Gettysburg, Pa., and lies bui-ied there.. Hi? parents, 
born in Ireland, live on Bennett Street, Brighton. 
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Hazael Leander Grover. — Born at Swanville, Me., Feb. 27, 1839; son of Moses 
and Betsey (Davis) Urover. Employed iu his trade as tinsuiilh at Brighton, he en- 
listed there, June i, 1N«1, in the 12th Mass. V. M., Co. E. He served most devotedly 
iu the engagements at Fair (»aks, Cedar Mountain, Bull llun (2d), Culpepper, and 
Antietam. He died at Kedysville, Md., Sept. 25, 1H)2, from the efl'ects of a wound 
received eight days before at the battle of Antietam. He lies buried at Kedysville. 
His father and brother both died in service in the late war, the former a victim of 
AndersonvUle prison. His mother is living iu Carmel,^Ie. 

George Hexry Howe, Jr. — Born in the city of Roxbury, Feb. 2, 1&45; only son of 
George Henry and Catlierine (Field) Howe. His father in 1852 removed his family to 
Brighton, where George was educated. He enlisted Jan. 10, 1802, fur three years, at 
Boston, in theDUtli New York \. M., Co. 1; was ordered to Hampton, and thence to 
Norfolk, Va., at the capture of which place he was j)reseut. Recovering from the 
measles with which he had been sick at Norfolk, he was ordered some miles from that 
city, and in this exijeditiou took a severe cold from which he never recovered, and was 
honorably discharged from the service, April 10, lK;;i, at Camp Sufl'olk. On the 5th of 
November, 1804, he died in consumption at Brighton, amidst the kind ministrations of 
bis home to which he had been brought, and which was comforted in the sweet peace 
and unwonted trust with which its \oung soldier antici])ated his linal discharge from 
this whole battle of lite. His body was interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Broiiklyn, 
N. Y., in the family tomb of his mother, who, born at New York, daughter of I'eter 
and Margaret (Marsh) Field, ilied at Brighton, i^ei)t. 15, 1803. His fuilier, born at AVest 
Roxbury, son of Abraham Fay and Mary (Savage) Howe, resides at Brighton, on Acad- 
emy Hill. 

Sami'el Devexs HAitRis Nii-Es. — Born in Boston, 1823; son of Tliomas and 
Sarah (McClennen) Niles. He was for a time at school at Stockbridgeand subsequently 
at Watertown, to which place his parents removed. At an early age he entered a store 
in Boston, but soon lel't. I'ronipted by a love of adventure, he followed the seas and 
travelled by laud many _\ears. lie enlisted early in the war on board a U. S. frigate 
and was stationed in the harbor of Valparaiso. He returned to his native city in lt4".2, 
and enlisted in November, as carpenter, on board the coast survey schooner " Bibb," 
Captain Bowtellc, which was ordered to the South. He died suddenly of heart disease, 
at his post, in Dec, 1802, off I'ort Royal, S. C, at which place he was buried with 
Slasonic honors. His father, born at Dorchester, son of Ebenezer Niles, resides at 
Brighton, on Oakland Street. His own mother, born iu Boston, daughter of Caleb 
McClcnucu, is not living. 

Frank Edwin Pi.immkr. — Born in Boston, Dec. 13, 1845; son of Enoch and 
Elizabeth (Johnston) riumnier. He removed about l80(i, with his father's family then 
residing in New Hampshire, to Brighftm. He enlisted, Feb. 23, l8tH, at Concord, New 
Hampshire, in the New ilanipsliirc Cavalry, and started in health and hope for the 
field. He was in Wilson's raid and in numerous skirmishes. But his fond wish to 
serve his country in arms was destined to a speedy disappointment. He returned home 
to Brighton, sick, Nov. fi, IWH; and, watched over with tender care, died here, of 
chronic diarrlui'a, .)an. 15, 18<"i5, in his twentieth year, and was interred at Evergreen 
Cemetery. His father, born at Londonderry, N. H., and his mother, born at Bradford, 
are living at Brighton, ou South Street, corner of Lake Street. 

Albert Rice. — Born at Brighton, Slay 12, IKIO; tenth among lilteen children of 
Emery and Betsey (Kirk) Rice. He attended school at Brighton. AVhen about six- 
teen, he went to sea; and, returning home, was shipwrecked olTthe coast of Nova ."^cotia. 
With some forty of the three hundred on board ship he was saved; and after a short 
residence at home, nuide a voyage to the East Indies, returning iu less than two years. 
On the opening of the war he was working at his trade as carpenter at home; and with 
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June, 1861, he enlisted for three years at Fort Independence, in 13th Mass. Vols., 
Co. C. He served devotedly until Jlay, 1802, in all the engagements in which his regi- 
ment shared, including those at Bolivar Heights and at Dam No. 5. Arriving at 
Falmouth, Va., after a forced march, he was stricken with paralysis, May 22, 1802, and 
died on the morning following, in his twenty-seventh year. He was buried by his com- 
panions in the old grave-yard of Falmouth, and a headboard was placed at his grave. 
But this was burned by the rebels ; and though his friends have searched carefully, no 
trace of his grave has been discovered. His fiither, born at Northfield, Mass., Jan. 1, 
1792, son of Silas and Abigail (Hagar) Rice, and his mother, born in Boston, are living 
at Brighton, on Cambridge Street. 

Richard David Ring. — Born at Brighton, Sept. 17, 1844; son of William and 
Bridget (Haggerty) Ring. He served three years in the ordnance department, U. S. 
Arsenal, Watortown, and enlisted, April 7, 1803, in the 2d New Jersey Vols. His ser- 
vice was very brief. He died of pneumonia, June 9, 1805, in his twenty-first year, in 
the Pattison Park General Hospital, Baltimore. His body was brought directly home 
and interred at Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline. His father, born in Ireland, county 
of Cork, son of David and Ann (Ludgate) Ring, died at Briglitou, May 8, 180.3. His 
mother, born in Ireland, county of Cork, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (McCarty) 
Haggerty, lives on Oakland Street, Brighton. 

■Warren Dutton Russei.l, Lieutenant, Francis Lowell Dutton Russell, 
Lieutenant, brothers; sons of James Dutton and Sarah Ellen (Hooper) Russell. 
Their father's name was changed by act of the Legislature, Feb. 21, 1820, from James 
Russell Dutton to James Dutton Russell. Born in Boston, Jan. 7, 1810, he graduated 
at Harvard University, 1829, and studied law. He was son of Hon. Warren Dutton, 
of Yale College 1797, lawyer of Boston, who resided many years at Brighton, and died 
there, March 3, 1857, in his eighty-third year, and of Elizabeth Cutts Lowell, daugliter 
of Hon. Judge Lowell of Boston. 

The flrst-named brother was born in Boston, April .30, 1840, and came in early child- 
hood with his parents to Brighton. He entered Harvard University, 1850. Left col- 
lege, and subsequently spent two years in the Cambridge Law' School. Leaving these 
studies he enlisted at Brighton, and was commissioned, Aug. 20, 1801, second lieuten- 
ant, ISth Mass. Vols. He was promoted first lieutenant in the same regiment, July 
10, 1802. His devotion and bravery in the service have been highly extolled. He fell 
in the second battle at Bull Run, Va., Saturday, Aug. .30, 1802. A brother offlcer wrote 
thus : " The 18th was formed in battle line at 9 A. Ji., and advanced over a field through 
a piece of woods, where we were kept three hours supporting batteries. At 3, P. m., 
the order came to advance. We charged through an open space of rising ground, 
nearly one quarter of a mile, under very heavy fire of shot and shell. During the 
charge, the voice of Lieutenant Russell could be heard continually encouraging his 
men. One of his men having been killed, he took his musket, and had discharged it 
twice, when, standing close by the colors, he was struck in the neck by a ball, cutting 
the jugular vein. His death was instantaneous, and he could not have suft'ered the 
slightest pain. His face was perfectly composed as in sleep. The regiment has lost 
a good officer and the officers a good friend." 

The younger brother was born at Brighton, Oct. 2, 1844, and baptized by the pastor 
of the First Church there, June 29, 1845. He enlisted In a New York regiment (Col, 
Duryea's) just leaving for Washington, and was wounded at the battle of Great Bethel. 
When the Secretary of War, soon after this battle, visited the hospital at Fort 
Monroe, so attracted and pleased was he with the intelligence of this young soldier 
and the patient manliness with which he bore his wounds, that he promised him a 
commission in the army if he recovered. Amidst the distracting cares of office the 
Secretary did not forget his promise, but, hearing that Russell had gone home on 
furlough to recruit his strength, appointed him first lieutenant in the 4th U. S. Cavalry. 
Recovering, he returned to the service; but again came home, sick, Jan. 8, 1864, — 
having been promoted brevet captain. He died May 11, 1804, at Springfield, Mass., 



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(Massasoit House), wlicre he liad pone with his fistrrs a 'wrtk previous, in llie hope 
of recruiting Ills health. Funeral Jroni King's thapel, lioston. Inteinient at Mi'unt 
Auburn. Ills father died at IJrifrhton, .June 10, 18C1, and his mother, born at Miuble- 
hcad, 1817, daughter of 'NVilliani Hooper, died Feb. 'J7, IHt*. 

Francis Augustine St.vkkf.v. — Bom at Fast Vasealboro', 3Ie., May 21, 1841 ; son 
of I-yman {;. and Mary (Williams) Starkey. He came to Kriphtun 3Iay •."-*, IN'O, and 
lived with .Mr. Daniel Shillaber, by whose family he was niuih esteemed for his excel- 
lent character. He enlisted Dec. 7, ]N"iI, for three years, in Head's Mounted Hitle IJan- 
gers. This battalion of cavalry was orffanized as a body-guard for General IJ. F. IJutlcr 
and attached to the ."JOth Mass. IJegiment. After a year it was incorporated into Col. 
Chickcring's regiment, 4th JIass. Cavalry. Young Starkey had no opportunity to man- 
ifest on the licld the patriotic spirit which had led him to serve, as he was soon taken 
sick. On the Hth of April, Im'c', he died ol typhoid fever on Shii> Island, in the tiulf 
of Mexico, not quite completing his twenty-lirst year, and was interred on the island. 
Rev. John V. Cleaveland of Lowell, chaplain, conducted the funeral services. His 
parents are living at East Vassalboro'. 

Edward Lewis Stevens, Lieutenant. — Born in Boston, Sept. .30, 1S42; son of 
Silas and Jane (Smith) Stevens. His father removed in 1845 from Boston to Brighton ; 
and here, at the High School, under the charge of Mr. John Kupgles, he was titled for 
Harvard University, where he was entered lbo9. Of very few of the young soldiers 
of our country has so general and exalted commendation been awarded, alike in oral 
and printed testimony, as of this "young Harvard hero." The obituary and resolu- 
tions jjrepared by his brother olficers at their head-ijuarters, Georgetown, S. C, with 
the accomi)anying letter to his family; the letter of I'rof. Child of the I'niversity, with 
the full notice and resolutions published by the class of 1N">.'5; his own admirable letter 
sent home shortly before his di-atli, avowing the high principles on which the war 
should be waged, and his conlident belief in its glorious issues; even the apjiropriate 
resolutions of the Sunday school at Brighton with which he had been connected, 
would all come litly here. But these prescribed limits forbid. He left (?bllege in his 
senior year to enlist, Sept. 12, l>i'.2, for nine months, iu the 44tli Mass. A'. M. Keturu- 
ing June IS, ISftJ, he joined in the class day exercises at college, but was too late for 
the annual examinations. Studying in the fall, he received his degree, Jan., l.S«i4. In 
the mean while he was in the store of .Alessrs. Sabin & I'age, Boston. In January, I8(V4, 
he was commissioned as second Iieuteuan( in the 5ith Mass. Vols., and left home for the 
regiment at Jacksonville, i"la. Fur his remarkable <|ualities as a man and an officer 
he was subsciiueutly jjromoted lirst lieutenant. He was killed instantly, Ajiril IS, 
18<>5, at Boykins Mills, near Camden, S. C, in an expedition from Oeorgetown to 
Camden under Brig.-General Totter. " He fell so near the enemy's works that it was 
not deemed right to order any one forward to recover the body, but volunteers 
promptly presented themselves, and he was thus buried near where he fell." His 
character has been (inely delineated in the published records above mentioned, which 
maybe consulted. His mother, born at Walthain, July 10, l.soo, daughter of .Nathan 
and Susannah (Bemis) Smith, died at Brighton, Nov. 25, 1H5. His father, born at 
Needham, .May 2, Isod, sou of Silas anil Sally (Gay) Stevens, lives on Washington Street, 
Brighton (one daughter and one son surviving), and married (2d) Jliss Brackett ot 
Kewton. 

Fhankux Wii.i.af!!) TiioMi'soN. — Born in Boston, July 1.3, 1846; son of George 
and Julia Ann (Hubbard) Thompson. He attended school in Boston, and in Sonier- 
ville where his jiarents subsequently resided, and came to Brighton in 1nV» and lived 
with Mr. Theodore Monroe. In Ai cust, IStVJ, he enlisted in the :i'.ith .Mass. Vols., Co. 
E, Somerville, and was ordered lirst to Washington. Having shared bravely in several 
engagements, he was taken prisoner at Petersburg, Va., .Vug. 25, ISiVl, and contiiied in 
Salisbury prison, X. C. He was subsequently removed, and died in the Florence 
stockade, S. C. A few days only before his capture, letters were received from him by 



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his sister at Brighton, expressing the regards of the loving as well as patriotic heart 
which endears the memory of the young soldier to his friends. His father, Ijorn at 
Hancock, N. H., May 13, ISu'l, lives at Quincy (Squantum). His mother, born at 
Chesterfield, N. H., April 20, 1819, died at Somerville, October, 1859. 

JosKPH Washington Warren. — Born at Charlestown, Mass., March 1.3, 1819, 
and came to Brighton when a boy, living there in the employ, successively, of Mr. 
Bodge and of Mr. Jonathan Hastings. Ue married at Roxbury, 1839, Elizabeth Hunt 
of Bath, N. H., and lived at Cambiidgeport, where she died. In 1845, he married (:.'d;, 
at Cambridgeport, Charlotte K. Moody. About 1857 he removed from Koxbury to 
Brighton, where he remained until his enlistment, Dec. 17, 1803, in the lltli Mass. 
Light Battery. He was mustered into service, Jan. 2, 1804, and left Boston for the 
South. He was taken sick in the summer; was three months in the Wolf Street Hos- 
pital, Alexandria, Va.; reached home, sick, on the 9th September, "looking in his 
altered visage like a man of eighty years," and died there, of chronic dysentery, on the 
23d. Funeral services were conducted on the 20th, in the Baptist church, Brighton, 
by the pastor. Rev. 3Ir. Bowles, and the body was interred at Evergreen Cemetery' 
His widow and children live at Brighton. 

George Washington Warben. -Born at Roxbury, June 25, 1840; son of Joseph 
Washington and Elizabeth (Hunt) Warren (above). He was married at Brighton, Oct. 
10, 1801, to Mary Ann Claypole, who was born at Cambridgeport. He enlisted a few 
days after his father, was mustered into service on the same day and in the same bat- 
tery with him. He, too, was sick at Alexandria, in Sickles Hospital, and died there of 
heart disease, Sept. 3, 1804, twenty days before his father's death. He was buried at 
Alexandria. His widow subsequently married Geo. M. Monto of Brighton and resides 
there. 



The following lines, written by a lady of this town on viewing the 
Monument, are here inserted by request, as a tribute to the departed 
soldiers : — 



Rest, soldier, rest; earth's toil is o'er; 
The soul is welcomed to that shore 
Whore peace and love forever reign. 
And all are free from strife and pain. 

Rest, soldier, rest; in this sweet spot 
Few comrades lie, — but not forgot 
Those sleeping in a Southern land. 
Who form with you one martyr band. 

Rest, soldier, rest; the great work done, 
Your brow is wreathed with laurels won; 
And comrades brave will drop a tear 
For each whose name is written here. 

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Rest, soldier, rest; this s.iaft will tell 
How dear the flag for which you fell; 
Unfurled it bears from shore to shore 
Union and Freedom evermore. 



SOLDIERS' UNION. 



The returned soldiers of Brighton met .it Mason's Hall, August 18, 
1800, — nearly every regiment and battery that had been in the service 
from the State being represented, — and organized a club for literary 
exercises and mutual improvement. Officers were chosen, as follows : 

President. 
WILLIAM ADGUSTU3 PUTNAM «'ILLARD. 

Vice-Presidents. 
JOHN PRATT, CHARLES EDMUND RICE, RICHARD BAXTER SMART. 

Recordino Secretart. 
JOHN THOMAS X E E D H A M . 

Financial S e c r e t a r r . 
EDtt'ARD HARKIS. 

TRBA SORER. 

AUGUSTUS MASON. 

Marshal. 
ALANSON TOWX.'SEXn BREWER. 

Standing Committee. 

AUSTIN niOELOW, GKORtJK KKANCIS GORDON, 

CHANDLER BALCII BRAMAN. 

Under tlie auspices of this club, a course of lectures has been inau- 
gurated, to be given each week alternately at the Town Hall on Wash- 
ington Street and at Union Hall on Union Square. The opening lec- 
ture was delivered Thursday evening, October -i, by the Hon. George 
Sewall Boutwell, on " Faith e.<;.sential to Success." llie second was by 
the Hon. (ieorge Stillnian Ilillard, on '• Books, — their Use, their Selec- 
tion." The third was by Edwin Percy Whipple, on "Shoddy." The 
fourth was by Rev. Warren Handel Cudworth, late chaplain First 
Mass. Rogt., on " Purpose ;" and the fifth is announced to be given by 
Ki'v. William liounsville Alger of Boston. 



h N '10 



ORATION 



DELIVERED AT THE 



DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS^ MONUMENT, 



fSbeiflrren (Cemetevj, 3iJii2l)ton, if^lass., 



ON THUKSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 26, 1866, 



KEY. FREDERIC AUGUSTUS WHITNEY. 



CONTAINING THE OTHER EXERCISES, AND NOTICES OF THE DECEASED SOLDIERS. 



BOSTON: 

8. CHI8M, — FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, 

Ab. 134 Washington Street^ comer of Spring Lane, 

186 6. 



